Heller employees size up ex-partners for new suit - San Francisco Business Times:

uraa-quartely.blogspot.com
The lawsuit, filed last week, names 13 including former ChairmanMatthew Larrabee, at San Francisco-basedx Heller Ehrman and seeks to include about 120 others who were partnersz as of August about one month before the firm shut Most of Heller Ehrman’s former partnerzs have moved on to other law Heller Ehrman had more than 860 employeees working in 13 offices across the country when the firm foldeds last year, said Craig Collins, the lawyer representing the ex-staffersz in the suit.
Most employees were laid off prior tothe firm’ bankruptcy filing last December and were not paid for accrued vacationj time or other benefits, the suit The lawsuit said partners should be held responsible for violationd of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, a federalk law that requires advance warning precediny mass layoffs. It also seeks to collect pay for accruecvacation time. There have been instances of law firm partners beinyg on the hook for financial obligations atprevious firms.
Amonb the most notable was the bankruptcygof , a notable San Francisco law firm until its 2003 Former Brobeck employees allegee after the firm’s implosion that they were not paid from retiremenr and pension plans and that they were owed money underd the WARN Act. The trustee overseeing Brobeck’a bankruptcy sued former Brobeck partners, claiming they were requirerd to repay the firm money they took while Brobecko was insolvent in 2001and 2002. The vast majoritu of partners acceptedthe trustee’xs settlement, paying more than $23 million, equal to pennies on the Larrabee did not respond to a request for comment.