September 19, 2018
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and a legal recruiter on Tuesday confidentially settled a nearly $1 million dispute in Manhattan federal court over the firm's alleged nonpayment for the placement of a bankruptcy partner, closing the book on a sticky discovery dispute regarding internal firm communications.
August 21, 2018
A Manhattan federal judge hearing a legal recruiter's nonpayment lawsuit against Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP raised questions Tuesday about the role of "co-administrative partners" at the law firm whose emails are apparently at the center of a discovery dispute.
March 06, 2018
A New York federal judge has urged an attorney recruiter that accused Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP of failing to pay a $937,500 matchmaking bill to amend its complaint against the law firm, saying at a Tuesday hearing it could narrow the dispute and get the case moving.
January 02, 2018
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has been sued for $937,500 in New York federal court by a legal recruiter that claims it's owed a search fee for introducing the firm to a lateral partner candidate who joined its bankruptcy practice last fall.