Thank You For The Feedback Folks! Andre Bouchard is Really Gone From Chancery Court!
05/17/2021
OPINION Dear Friends, There has been so much activity over the past two weeks as Andre Bouchard and Delaware’s once-vaunted Chancery Court parted ways and honestly, folks, not a moment too soon. While he acted as chief dictator, as I see it, he did everything in his power to divert money from TransPerfect over to his cronies at…
OPINION Dear friends, Folks, yet another Skadden Arps fees article came to my attention. Overbilling was an issue in the TransPerfect case where Skadden actually billed for preparing bills?! Chancellor Andre Bouchard’s former employer Skadden was the beneficiary in the TransPerfect case in Delaware as a federal judge ruled that there were “$44 Million in…
We consider the ruling a victory in that the Federal Court found Chancellor Bouchard ordered TransPerfect to pay ‘$44 million in undocumented fees’ to his former law firm. It also put Bouchard and the Chancery Court on notice, which will help prevent future violations of civil rights.
Skadden’s retention should be denied and that it should be required to return fees already paid based on its failure to fully disclose its prepetition relationships in declarations filed with the court. Also targeted are alleged efforts to avoid a subpoena from the Acthar plaintiffs’ group seeking details on what was described as Skadden’s “dual representation” of Mallinckrodt and Express Scripts.
OPINION Dear Friends, In my view, there is one word that defines Chancellor Andre Bouchard’s career, it is: CORRUPTION. And as this story below confirms, at least he is consistent. My sources say Andre Bouchard is set to kiss his Skadden and other friends goodbye with a slew of golden parachutes, seemingly, in my opinion,…