It was a "natural point" in the schedule, Mr. Ueland said -- after the budget debate and after Republicans had pushed through some of Mr. Bush's legislative priorities, including bills to change the way class-action lawsuits and bankruptcy filings are handled.
It handled the filings for the Facebook initial public offering and files reports for large companies, including General Motors, Toyota and Michael Kors Holdings.
About 500 cases were filed against the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, while an additional 175 were spread among the dioceses of Orange, San Diego and San Bernardino, said Ray Boucher, a lawyer whose office is handling filings for 320 plaintiffs in Southern California.
Federal court filings show that Ms. Lewis directly handled several phone calls arranging liaisons for a customer of the service, Client 9, who the authorities said was later identified as Mr. Spitzer.
Federal court filings show that Ms. Lewis directly handled several phone calls arranging liaisons for a customer of the service, Client 9, who the authorities later said was Mr. Spitzer.
Kirkland has already handled 10 major bankruptcy filings in 2008, including Tropicana Entertainment, the casino operator; Tousa Inc., the Florida home builder; and Wellman, a plastics maker.
That doesn't include bills for at least 50 lawyers and 15 consultants who have handled AT&T's regulatory filings with the FCC and the Justice Department's antitrust division.
Ms. Lewis handled many of those transactions, court filings show.
She handled many of the firm's regulatory filings and, according to the trustee for Madoff victims, made false statements to securities regulators.
While the forgery allegations are well known and have been the subject of three federal lawsuits against Knoedler, the recent filings expand the known number of Rosales artworks that were handled by the gallery, which was in business for 165 years, and assert that they played a pivotal role in the gallery's success.
Most of these companies use third-party software platforms to handle the filings in-house.
