March 06, 2018
A California federal bankruptcy judge erred when he decided the relationship between Heller Ehrman LLP and former client Paravue Corp. "conclusively terminated" in 2007 and started the clock running on Paravue's $20 million malpractice suit, the Ninth Circuit said Monday.
October 08, 2015
Ex-Heller Ehrman LLP client Paravue Corp. failed on Wednesday to convince a California federal judge to revive a $20 million malpractice suit accusing the defunct firm of negligently advising it on loan agreements, with the judge saying the suit was filed too late.
May 13, 2015
A California bankruptcy judge won't revive former Heller Ehrman LLP client Paravue Corp.'s $20 million in claims against the defunct firm, finding on Tuesday that the ex-client's purportedly new evidence had long been available.
April 30, 2015
Attorneys for Heller Ehrman LLP have urged a California bankruptcy court to deny an ex-client of the defunct law firm another chance at reviving $20 million in claims against it, saying Paravue Corp. failed to ask for reconsideration at the appropriate juncture and is now attempting to forum-shop.
February 20, 2015
Ex-Heller Ehrman LLP client Paravue Corp. urged a California federal judge Friday to grant the bankruptcy judge overseeing the defunct firm's liquidation the authority to revisit his ruling shooting down Paravue's bid for more than $20 million in claims, saying the bankruptcy judge wrongly found he lacked jurisdiction.
September 30, 2014
Defunct firm Heller Ehrman LLP slammed ex-client Paravue Corp.'s bid to revive $20 million in claims that were filed too late, telling a California bankruptcy judge Monday that Paravue's attorneys already had copies of invoices Paravue alleges were newly discovered.
August 22, 2014
Paravue Corp., a former Heller Ehrman LLP client, asked a California bankruptcy judge on Thursday to reconsider his ruling that more than $20 million in claims against the defunct firm were filed too late, claiming it found new invoices extending the statute of limitations.
July 30, 2014
Heller Ehrman LLP breached an employment agreement by refusing to pay a former shareholder more than $1.2 million when the law firm went bankrupt, a Schiff Hardin LLP real estate attorney told a California bankruptcy judge on Wednesday in a one-day bench trial on his claims.
July 18, 2014
A Schiff Hardin LLP attorney has blasted as "absurd" attempts by his former firm, Heller Ehrman LLP, to block his $1.2 million retirement claim, insisting that an agreement establishes Heller Ehrman as his former employer and that he was owed a set salary for a fixed number of years.
July 11, 2014
The plan administrator for bankrupt Heller Ehrman LLP on Thursday appealed to the Ninth Circuit a California federal judge's refusal to allow the defunct law firm to claw back unfinished business profits from former partners representing its former clients at Jones Day, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and other big-name firms.