About 60 former Howrey attorneys have joined forces to protect themselves from potential lawsuits to recover the compensation they received before the law firm’s demise and subsequent bankruptcy filing last year, the Wall Street Journal reported today. The attorneys, who once populated Howrey’s intellectual property, litigation and other practices and now work at such firms as Cooley and Greenberg Traurig, have hired the San Francisco law firm of Dumas & Clark to represent them in "protecting and advancing certain common interests and issues in lawsuits, claims, and proceedings that are or may potentially be alleged or asserted by or against members of the group," according to a bankruptcy court filing on Friday. The trustee running Howrey’s liquidation, Allan Diamond, has said that he may sue Howrey’s former partners to recover compensation paid out of the law firm’s alleged profits.
