The first week of May was a busy one at Chadbourne & Parke.

Court filings finally revealed the $35 million sum the firm agreed to pay earlier this year to settle its involvement in a long-running dispute with Ponzi scheme victims, as Chadbourne also spun off its Warsaw office into an independent firm. Now an equity partner who spent more than 14 years at Chadbourne in Washington, D.C., has retired from the law and started his own consulting shop.