Rite Aid Cuts Loose Law Firms With Personal Ties to Executives

June 27, 2023, 9:00 AM UTC

Rite Aid Corp., a drugstore chain grappling with a $2.9 billion debt load, has parted ways with a pair of Big Law firms with partners personally linked to former and current senior executives.

A Rite Aid spokeswoman confirmed the Harrisburg Pa.-based company is “no longer working” with Bradley Arant Boult Cummings and Littler Mendelson.

Both firms collectively received $641,000 during fiscal 2022, a year in which Rite Aid disclosed it would transition its legal work to other firms so that “related persons not have a material interest” in it.

Rite Aid said at the time that a sister of Paul ...

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