The new year has brought a fresh round of lawsuits brought by or against big law firms, including a $214 million malpractice suit against Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer and a gender discrimination suit against Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart.
But while such complaints always make a splash when they are filed, a look back shows that a number of similar suits were quietly settled, resolved or sent to arbitration in 2017, as they were in 2016, especially after the law firm failed to immediately dismiss the suit or lost on appeal.
