Wake Up Call: Boies Schiller Axes Staff, Associates in NY, California

In today’s column, a controversial $1.1 billion, Big Law-brokered sale of the .Org web domain to a private equity firm ran into a wall yesterday, blocked by the company that runs the internet; New York law firms’ growth was already slowing before Covid-19 arrived; DLA Piper promoted 67 lawyers to partner, including 33 in the U.S.; Cole Schotz won a second Chapter 11 pause for Modell’s Sporting Goods; a Louisiana law firm sent 777 pizzas to health care workers.

• Leading off, the new managers at Boies Schiller Flexner have said they’re using the Covid-19 crisis to speed up restructuring of ...