When Will Skadden Arps and Jennifer Voss Be Held Accountable in TransPefect Case in Delaware?
08/02/2021
OPINION Dear friends, Breaking news, folks: In the notorious TransPerfect case that has been ongoing in our Chancery Court, a company attorney made a strong argument that Skadden Arps’ Robert Pincus used Court-granted power to “pull off a heist worth tens of millions of dollars.” Those are strong and important words. Pincus knowingly made a…
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.