By Dan Roe | May 5, 2023
COVID-era pauses on evictions and moratoriums ultimately brought Chicago's largest consumer bankruptcy firm to court for its own Chapter 11 filing.
By Jessica Seah | October 13, 2022
None of the closures has been made public but they have caused ripples in local market as they represent a severe blow to the firms' ambitions in the region.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Lizzy McLellan | October 15, 2020
In layoff notices earlier this year, the firm said COVID-19 had caused a significant decrease in business demand, as moratoriums on foreclosures took effect.
By Leigh Jones | Vanessa Blum | March 27, 2020
Keith Wetmore, former chairman at Morrison & Foerster, and Bill Brandt, who has helped handle workouts and restructurings for nearly 40 law firms, had big roles during the 2008 recession. Here's their perspective on the major challenges law firms are facing now.
Daily Report Online | Analysis
By Lizzy McLellan | August 25, 2019
LeClairRyan's collapse was years in the making. Sources say the firm overpaid some lawyers, created guaranteed contracts, let overhead expenses grow and made other questionable strategic decisions.
By Meredith Hobbs | August 23, 2019
A couple who sold their $360,000 home in April said in the suit that they are still on the hook for the mortgage because the residential real estate closing firm never paid off their lender.
By Meredith Hobbs | July 12, 2019
BrandMortgage's suit against Dickason Law follows others by title insurers who in April discovered escrow shortfalls at the residential real estate closing firm.
By Meredith Hobbs | June 20, 2019
A forensic audit has revealed several million dollars in shortfalls, said one title insurer's lawyer, Jeff Schneider, who represented now-defunct Morris Hardwick Schneider in its suit against convicted embezzler Nat Hardwick.
By Meredith Hobbs | May 9, 2019
Judge Eleanor Ross ruled late Thursday that former law firm partner Nathan Hardwick IV and a co-conspirator were both liable for recompensing Hardwick's ex-partners and Fidelity National Title Insurance.
By Meredith Hobbs | January 9, 2019
Atlanta lawyer Nathan Hardwick's sentencing hearing could be as contentious as the trial, according to dueling sentencing arguments.
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