Townsend spokesman Brian Colucci has confirmed that the firm’s merger talks with Kilpatrick Stockton have ended. Townsend veteran partner Paul Vapnek heard late last week from another partner that the talks were off, he said, because of irreconcilable conflicts with a major Kilpatrick client

The list of defendants in a malpractice claim filed against defunct law firm Wolf Block reads like a who’s who of former Wolf Block lawyers who have moved on to other firms, retired or died since the client hired the firm more than 25 years ago. Alan H

A New York federal judge is scheduled today to resentence disbarred lawyer Lynne Stewart for providing material support to a terrorist conspiracy. The judge will consider whether Stewart perjured herself at her 2005 trial for helping the U.S.-designated terror organization Islamic Group communicate with its spiritual leader and her client, imprisoned Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman

One side calls a case going before a California appeals court this week an “ordinary fee dispute,” while the other insists it raises issues about contingency agreements and arbitration no court has ever addressed.

Anthony Nuzzo has spent much of his 42 years of practice helping other lawyers get out of ethics and malpractice jams. The managing partner of Nuzzo & Roberts practices before Connecticut’s Statewide Grievance Committee and defends professional liability claims in court and in mediation.