Making good on a pledge issued two months ago, the trustee unwinding the Chapter 11 estate of defunct Washington, D.C.based litigation firm Howrey has launched the first round of lawsuits aimed at clawing back both the money former partners were paid by the firm before it dissolved and the revenue earned from assignments they brought to the firms where they landed after its collapse.
Dorsey & Whitney; Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton; Ropes & Gray; and Shearman & Sterling are among the six firms targeted in the initial batch of so-called unfinished business suits brought by Howrey trustee Allan Diamond. In the suits, filed March 11 in federal bankruptcy court in San Francisco, Diamond also asserts claims against a total of seven former Howrey partners scattered among five of those firms in an effort to reclaim millions of dollars he says they were unjustly paid.
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