Ex-K&L Gates Partner Convicted of Cyberstalking Firm Partners

Lawyer Willie Dennis was convicted on charges of cyberstalking his former partners at K&L Gates by a Manhattan federal jury on Monday.

Prosecutors accused Dennis of a years-long campaign of harassment, intimidation, and threats against firm partners. Dennis sent the victims thousands of harassing, threatening, and intimidating emails and text messages “back-to-back, at all hours of the day and night,” prosecutors said.

The jury convicted Dennis on three out of four counts of cyberstalking after a one-week trial, the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York said in a Monday statement. Each count carries a maximum sentence ...