Former Fulbright & Jaworski partner Richard Simkin has pleaded guilty to charges of false accounting and fraud. Simkin, who resigned from the firm’s London office in 2008, and his wife Zakia Sharif, who was dismissed as an office manager by the firm, have admitted to stealing as much as £100,000 from the firm in false expenses claims.Visit International News
A Houston man has filed a malpractice suit against lawyer Stewart W. Gagnon and his firm, Fulbright & Jaworski, alleging they failed to use “ordinary care” when representing him in a 2010 divorce and “engaged in a practice of excessive billing and over billing for tasks performed.”
A Houston man has filed a malpractice suit against lawyer Stewart W. Gagnon and his firm, Fulbright & Jaworski, alleging they failed to use “ordinary care” when representing him in a 2010 divorce and “engaged in a practice of excessive billing and over billing for tasks performed.”
A Fulbright & Jaworski survey of 405 in-house lawyers shows 92 percent of U.S. respondents and 85 percent of U.K. respondents say they expect litigation to rise or stay the same in the next 12 months.
Fulbright & Jaworski has kicked off a review of its international strategy that could see it pursuing a merger with Norton Rose. Having achieved mergers in Australia, Canada and South Africa in recent years, the U.S