With a long-awaited $158.6 million dairy class action settlement finally agreed upon, and a bankruptcy judge in California certifying a class of former employees seeking to pursue claims against Howrey, a trustee for the defunct Am Law 100 firm’s estate is now seeking information on an assignment that Howrey sought to pursue after its 2011 dissolution.
Last week Howrey bankruptcy trustee Allan Diamond of Diamond McCarthy filed papers with U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali in San Francisco seeking information from James Monroe and Robert Best Jr., both of whom were key local political players that signed a legal services contract with Howrey worth up to $15.5 million if the firm was successful in creating a municipal power grid in upstate New York.
