It is not uncommon in the current litigation environment for even the best lawyers to find themselves facing potential civil liability and regulatory scrutiny for their role advising clients. At Davis Polk, we take great pride in the fact that our colleagues at other law firms routinely call upon us to defend them when their livelihoods and reputations are most on the line.

We have built one of the country's leading practices in the representation of other lawyers, and have substantial experience representing law firms against various types of state and federal claims – including malpractice, breach of duty and securities law claims – and in connection with investigations by the SEC and other state and federal agencies

• We are defending a major global law firm, headquartered in California, in a malpractice claim and breach of fiduciary duty action pending in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Claimed damages exceed $100 million.
  
  
  
• We successfully represented a prominent law firm and several of its partners in threatened civil litigation with its former client and in SEC enforcement proceedings, which resulted in the SEC’s decision not to bring charges against the individuals or the firm. We also represented the individual partners as third-party witnesses in a criminal trial against executives of its former client.
  
  
  
• We won a judgment in favor of Paul Hastings LLP in connection with a fraudulent transfer and breach of duty action filed by a creditor of Paul Hastings’ client in the District Court of Delaware.

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