DIAMOND v. HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP

Nos. 15-16326, 15-16327, 15-16328, 15-16329, 15-16330, 15-16331, 15-16332, 15-16333.

883 F.3d 1140 (2018)

Allan B. DIAMOND, Chapter 7 Trustee of the Estate of Howrey LLP, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP, Defendant-Appellee. Allan B. Diamond, Chapter 7 Trustee of the Estate of Howrey LLP, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Defendant-Appellee. Allan B. Diamond, Chapter 7 Trustee of the Estate of Howrey LLP, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Defendant-Appellee. Allan B. Diamond, Chapter 7 Trustee of the Estate of Howrey LLP, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Perkins Coie LLP, Defendant-Appellee. Allan B. Diamond, Chapter 7 Trustee of the Estate of Howrey LLP, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP, Defendant-Appellee. Allan B. Diamond, Chapter 7 Trustee of the Estate of Howrey LLP, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, Defendant-Appellee. Allan B. Diamond, Chapter 7 Trustee of the Estate of Howrey LLP, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, Defendant-Appellee. Allan B. Diamond, Chapter 7 Trustee of the Estate of Howrey LLP, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jones Day, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 27, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher D. Sullivan (argued), Diamond McCarthy LLP, San Francisco, California; Christopher R. Murray and Michael D. Fritz , Diamond McCarthy LLP, Houston, Texas; for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Shay Dvoretzky (argued) and Emily J. Kennedy , Jones Day, Washington, D.C.; Robert A. Mittelstaedt and Jason McDonnell , Jones Day, San Francisco, California; for Defendant-Appellee Jones Day.

Jonathan W. Hughes and Pamela Phillips , Arnold & Porter LLP, San Francisco, California; Robert Reeves Anderson , Arnold & Porter LLP, Denver, Colorado; for Defendant-Appellee Hogan Lovells US LLP.

David G. Keyko , Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, New York, New York; John M. Grenfell and G. Allen Brandt , Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, San Francisco, California; for Defendant-Appellee Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.

Lori L. Roeser , Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for Defendant-Appellee Seyfarth Shaw LLP.

Ronald A. McIntire and Judith B. Gitterman , Perkins Coie LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Defendant-Appellee Perkins Coie LLP.

Nancy J. Newman , Hanson Bridgett LLP, San Francisco, California; Robert Radasevich , Neal Gerber & Eisenberg LLP, Chicago, Illinois; for Defendant-Appellee Neal Gerber & Eisenberg LLP.

Margaret A. Ziemianek , Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP, San Francisco, California; Robert M. Novick , Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP, New York, New York; for Defendant-Appellee Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP.

Richard W. Brunette and Michael M. Lauter , Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Defendant-Appellee Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP.

Paulette Brown , President; Eric A. Shumsky , Christopher J. Cariello , and Anjali S. Dalal , Of Counsel; American Bar Association, Chicago, Illinois; for Amicus Curiae American Bar Association.

David C. Tingstad , Beresford Booth PLLC, Edmonds, Washington, for Amici Curiae Various Practitioners and Academics.

Before: Ronald M. Gould and Mary H. Murguia, Circuit Judges, and Nancy Freudenthal, Chief District Judge.


ORDER

Alan B. Diamond, Trustee for Howrey LLP's bankruptcy estate, seeks to recover profits earned from hourly-billed client matters started at Howrey, but completed at other firms that hired the former Howrey partners. He raises both a fraudulent transfer and an unjust enrichment theory of recovery. The viability of both theories turns on the answers to unresolved questions of D.C. partnership law concerning the scope...

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