Shrader & Associates has filed a petition in Texas state court alleging a former office manager, who was indicted for allegedly taking more than $200,000 from the firm, provided “confidential, proprietary, and privileged information” from the firm’s computer server to a Houston lawyer and firm.

Cadwalader enjoyed a modest uptick in revenue in 2011, the firm’s first burst of top-line growth since 2007, according to The American Lawyer’s reporting, which showed the firm’s gross revenue increased 4.4 percent, to $448.5 million, and revenue per lawyer was up nearly 8 percent, to $965,000.

A Dallas firm has sued an anonymous “Ben Doe” who allegedly wrote a negative Google review about the firm, in a case that highlights the difficulties lawyers face in addressing online comments.

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

In a decision appointing firms to lead a shareholder class action against Sino-Forest Corp., a judge in Ontario explored whether the Toronto firm Kim Orr should be disqualified from the bidding because of the firm’s prominent ties with Milberg.