Mid Cap

  • February 15, 2025

    Real Estate Recap: Practice Pivot, Tariff Tax, Lennar's Lawyers

    Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including the latest shifts in real estate law practice, a Big Law leader's predictions for a looming tariff "tax" debate, and a look at the legal talent behind homebuilder Lennar Corp.'s $5.8 billion spinoff.

  • February 14, 2025

    Conn. Diocese Reaches $31M Deal With Abuse Claimants

    The bankrupt Roman Catholic Diocese of Norwich, Connecticut, has struck a deal to pay $31 million to sexual abuse survivors, the diocese and its unsecured creditors' committee jointly announced Friday.

  • February 14, 2025

    Camston Wrather Files For Ch. 7 With Over $100M In Debt

    California-based sustainable resource recovery company Camston Wrather LLC has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy listing liabilities between $100 million and $500 million along with up to $50 million in assets, citing insufficient funding to continue operations.

  • February 13, 2025

    Fla. Judge Denies Drinks Co. Ex-CEO Bid To Ax Monster Liens

    A Florida federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday declined to rule on a bid to dismiss all Monster Energy Company's claims and liens against the former CEO of the corporation that produces Bang Energy drinks, saying he lacks jurisdiction to resolve issues between two non-debtors.

  • February 13, 2025

    Creative Services Co. Hits Ch. 11 With $54M In Debt

    Splashlight, a New York City-based company that provides media production and creative services to brands such as Target and Nike, has filed for Chapter 11 protection, listing $39 million of assets and $53.5 million in liabilities.

  • February 13, 2025

    National Events Trustee Gets OK For Atty Payment Scheme

    Special litigation counsel for defunct ticket broker National Events Holdings LLC's Chapter 7 Trustee can front funds to the employ of experts in litigation and be reimbursed by the estate, a New York bankruptcy judge said, overruling the U.S. Trustee.

  • February 13, 2025

    Lowenstein Sandler Accuses Dispensary Of 'Bad Faith' Move

    Lowenstein Sandler LLP has accused a cannabis dispensary it is suing for unpaid legal fees of effectively asking a New Jersey Superior Court judge to overturn another judge's partial denial of the dispensary's motion to dismiss the case.

  • February 13, 2025

    Sandy Hook Families Seek To Enforce Alex Jones Judgment

    Infowars founder Alex Jones should be forced to pay the judgment that Sandy Hook families won in their long-running defamation case, even though he lodged a "baseless" appeal with the Connecticut Supreme Court in an effort to create further delays, the plaintiffs said.

  • February 13, 2025

    Orrick Hires Former Head Of A&O's Restructuring Practice

    The former head of Allen & Overy's U.S. restructuring practice prior to A&O's transatlantic merger with Shearman & Sterling has joined Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in New York.

  • February 12, 2025

    Rhodium Says Landlord Tried To 'Destroy' It In $300M Suit

    Bankrupt Bitcoin mining company Rhodium Encore has filed a $300 million lawsuit in Texas bankruptcy court accusing competitor Riot Platforms and landlord and power provider Whinstone US Inc. of sabotaging its business and driving it into bankruptcy.

  • February 12, 2025

    Chester, Pa., Can Probe Water Utility's Assets In Ch. 9

    A Pennsylvania bankruptcy judge gave the ailing city of Chester the green light Wednesday to probe a water utility about its assets, but stopped short of allowing the city under Chapter 9 protection to share the information or allowing an auditor to visit the utility's property.

  • February 12, 2025

    Solar Co. Oya Gets OK For Ch. 11 Sales Following Settlement

    A Delaware bankruptcy judge said Wednesday she would approve two sales of assets from solar energy producer Oya Renewables worth a combined $39 million after it reached a settlement with its creditors' committee.

  • February 12, 2025

    Skarzynski Marick Adds Duane Morris Bankruptcy Team in LA

    Insurance coverage litigation boutique Skarzynski Marick & Black LLP is expanding its services, announcing Wednesday it is bringing over a team of Duane Morris LLP bankruptcy experts in its Los Angeles office.

  • February 12, 2025

    Blank Rome Adds 2 Ex-Otterbourg Finance Pros In NY

    Blank Rome LLP has added the former chair of Otterbourg PC's banking and finance department and a fellow asset-based lending and corporate transactions specialist previously with that firm as partners in its New York office, the firm has announced.

  • February 12, 2025

    CarePoint Gets Deal To Upsize Ch. 11 Financing By $32M

    Hospital owner CarePoint Health Systems Inc. reached an agreement with lenders to increase its Chapter 11 financing by $31.7 million, counsel for the debtor told a judge Wednesday, bringing CarePoint's total borrowing in its bankruptcy case to roughly $63.8 million as the company works to secure confirmation of a plan to restructure its debt.

  • February 11, 2025

    NY Judge Sides With Attorney In Golf Malpractice Row

    A New York federal magistrate judge has recommended summary judgment in favor of an attorney in a legal malpractice lawsuit in which he is accused of causing the plaintiffs to lose an Arizona golf course property because he failed to file the proper bankruptcy paperwork.

  • February 11, 2025

    3rd-Party Releases OK'd In Rochester Diocese's Ch. 11 Plan

    A New York bankruptcy judge Tuesday delayed approval of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester's Chapter 11 plan disclosure for a month to review last-minute changes, but he said he had made up his mind that third-party liability releases in the plan are acceptable.

  • February 11, 2025

    Catching Up With New Bankruptcy Case Action

    Zips Car Wash filed for Chapter 11 in Texas with $654 million in debt, struggling with liquidity from competition and rising interest rates. Omega Therapeutics filed for bankruptcy with $140 million in debt and a restructuring plan with its shareholders. White Forest Resources filed for Chapter 11 due to production and shipping issues and plans to sell one of its two mines in West Virginia. 

  • February 11, 2025

    Ill. Atty Beats Wire Fraud Retrial After Privilege Violation

    An Illinois jury has acquitted a former Freeborn & Peters partner of charges that he helped a client shift assets to avoid creditors ahead of its anticipated bankruptcy filing, after a privilege violation prompted the trial judge to exclude certain evidence from the case.

  • February 11, 2025

    Meet The Attys Guiding Omega Therapeutics Through Ch. 11

    Biotechnology company Omega Therapeutics, which hit Chapter 11 in Delaware on Monday with more than $140 million of debt and a restructuring agreement with an affiliate of its controlling stockholder, has called on attorneys from Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP to guide its insolvency.

  • February 11, 2025

    Ex-Major Lindsey Employee Must Face Firm's $4.8M Claim

    A New York bankruptcy court ruled Monday that a former Major Lindsey & Africa LLC employee embroiled in over a decade of litigation with the recruiting firm cannot discharge a $4.8 million claim it filed against her.

  • February 10, 2025

    GenapSys Can't Claw Back Some Docs From Paul Hastings

    A California judge ruled that GenapSys Inc. can claw back some documents it inadvertently released during discovery in a legal malpractice suit against Paul Hastings LLP, but that some documents discussed during depositions cannot be clawed back because attorneys for GenapSys did not lodge proper objections during the proceedings. 

  • February 10, 2025

    DC Apartment Owner Finds Ch. 11 Buyer Via Credit Bid

    The owner of a Washington, D.C., apartment building told a Delaware bankruptcy judge it found a buyer for the property who will acquire the asset through a credit bid.

  • February 10, 2025

    Sandy Hook Families Accuse Alex Jones Of 'Ambush' Appeal

    Connecticut's highest court should swat down Infowars host Alex Jones' attempt to appeal a record-smashing Sandy Hook defamation verdict because he abandoned the very defenses he now seeks to present under a special type of review for unpreserved constitutional arguments, the victims of the 2012 mass shooting have said.

  • February 10, 2025

    Spyglass Says Weinstein Has No Rights To 'Scream 4' Profits

    Film and television production company Spyglass, which bought the assets of The Weinstein Co. during its bankruptcy several years ago, is trying to fend off an attempt by Harvey Weinstein to collect money generated by the film "Scream 4."

Expert Analysis

  • Serta Ruling Further Narrows Equitable Mootness In 5th Circ.

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    The Fifth's Circuit recent Serta bankruptcy decision represents a further hardening of its view of the equitable mootness doctrine, and may set up a U.S. Supreme Court review of the doctrine in the near future, say attorneys at Cleary.

  • Confusing Injury-In-Fact Rules Hinder Federal Practice

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    A recent Third Circuit decision, contradicting a previous ruling about whether consumers of contaminated products have suffered an injury in fact, illustrates the deep confusion this U.S. Supreme Court standard creates among federal judges and practitioners, who deserve a simpler method of determining which cases have federal standing, says Eric Dwoskin at Dwoskin Wasdin.

  • In-House Counsel Pointers For Preserving Atty-Client Privilege

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    Several recent rulings illustrate the challenges in-house counsel can face when attempting to preserve attorney-client privilege, but a few best practices can help safeguard communications and effectively assert the privilege in an increasingly scrutinized corporate environment, says Daniel Garrie at Law & Forensics.

  • Collecting Rare Books Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My collection of rare books includes several written or owned by prominent lawyers from early U.S. history, and immersing myself in their stories helps me feel a deeper connection to my legal practice and its purpose, says Douglas Brown at Manatt Health.

  • Judge Should Not Have Been Reprimanded For Alito Essay

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    Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor's New York Times essay critiquing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for potential ethical violations absolutely cannot be construed as conduct prejudicial to the administration of the business of the courts, says Ashley London at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University.

  • Lights, Camera, Ethics? TV Lawyers Tend To Set Bad Example

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    Though fictional movies and television shows portraying lawyers are fun to watch, Hollywood’s inaccurate depictions of legal ethics can desensitize attorneys to ethics violations and lead real-life clients to believe that good lawyers take a scorched-earth approach, says Nancy Rapoport at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

  • Ch. 11 Ruling Confirms Insurer Standing Requirements

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    A New York bankruptcy court's recent decision in the Syracuse Diocese's Chapter 11 case indicates that insurers have misread the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2024 ruling in Truck Insurance Exchange v. Kaiser Gypsum and that federal standing requirements remain unaltered, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.

  • AI Will Soon Transform The E-Discovery Industrial Complex

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    Todd Itami at Covington discusses how generative artificial intelligence will reshape the current e-discovery paradigm, replacing the blunt instrument of data handling with a laser scalpel of fully integrated enterprise solutions — after first making e-discovery processes technically and legally harder.

  • When Innovation Overwhelms The Rule Of Law

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    In an era where technology is rapidly evolving and artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere, it’s worth asking if the law — both substantive precedent and procedural rules — can keep up with the light speed of innovation, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • Adventure Photography Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Photographing nature everywhere from Siberia to Cuba and Iceland to Rwanda provides me with a constant reminder to refresh, refocus and rethink the legal issues that my clients face, says Richard Birmingham at Davis Wright.

  • How Ch. 11 Can Alleviate Merchant Cash Advance Concerns

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    Merchant cash advance funding is one of the biggest challenges for small businesses today because funders are so prevalent, aggressive and expensive, but bankruptcy can provide several tools for dealing with MCA agreements that may allow the debtor business to restructure and survive, says Patricia Fugée at FisherBroyles.

  • 5 Ways To Create Effective Mock Assignments For Associates

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    In order to effectively develop associates’ critical thinking skills, firms should design mock assignments that contain a few key ingredients, from messy fact patterns to actionable feedback, says Abdi Shayesteh at AltaClaro.

  • 8 Lessons Yellow Corp. Layoffs Can Teach Distressed Cos.

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    A Delaware bankruptcy court’s recent decision, examining trucking company Yellow Corp.’s abrupt termination of roughly 25,500 employees, offers financially distressed businesses a road map for navigating layoffs under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, say attorneys at King & Spalding.