Judge Scheindlin Jumps to Boies Schiller as Stroock Mulls Merger (1)

Sept. 29, 2023, 2:00 PM UTCUpdated: Sept. 29, 2023, 8:32 PM UTC

Former US District Court judge Shira Scheindlin has left Stroock & Stroock & Lavan to join Boies Schiller Flexner in New York.

Scheindlin officially joins Boies Schiller on Oct. 2 as of counsel. She is also just the latest in a long list of departures from Stroock, which just last week announced it was in merger talks with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.

Stroock is looking to merge to create a bigger firm and for a practice like hers, the size of the firm affects the conflicts,
Scheindlin said in an interview with Bloomberg Law.

“Since I have an overwhelmingly neutral ...

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