Wake Up Call: Corporate Lawyers ‘Volunteer’ for Bankruptcy Duty

April 16, 2020, 12:32 PM UTC

In today’s column, Crowell & Moring and other big firms announced cost-cuts to protect their finances during the Covid-19 crisis; Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. hired a former Boeing in-house lawyer as general counsel. Amazon.com is idling warehouses in France for five days after a court accused it of lax Covid-19 protections for workers; Chicago police said a husband and wife lawyer team were stabbed to death.

  • Leading off, as law firms’ corporate and M&A practices nosedive amidst the economic crisis ignited by the Covid-19 pandemic, U.K.-based corporate lawyers with relevant experience at Big Law firms, including DLA Piper and Ashurst, are ...

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