Baker & McKenzie suffered a legal setback Wednesday when an Illinois appellate court rejected its bid to move a legal malpractice case to Moscow or London from Chicago.
London-based Lehram Capital Investments Ltd. asserted legal malpractice charges against Moscow-based Baker & McKenzie CIS lawyers and sued “Baker LLP” in Cook County, Ill.
Baker argued the case should be moved to Russia or, if that venue is not available because of political instability and the war in Ukraine, to London because the case has no Chicago connection. The dispute involves a London company, its Spanish executive, and the purported illegal seizure ...
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