Earlier this week, we noted that Alston & Bird is still owed an estimated $47,311 by a bankrup
t client.
Now word comes that King & Spalding holds an I.O.U. from a bankrupt client, and its bill is much higher. Semiconductor maker Spansion Inc. owes $1,637,609 to lawyers in King & Spalding’s Silicon Valley office, the Am Law Daily blog reports.
Spansion also owes $1,584,395 to Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal.
The Sunnyvale, Calif. company’s voluntary petition in federal bankruptcy court in Delaware doesn’t identify which practice group of the law firms provided the heretofore-unpaid work. The petition also describes both amounts as “disputed.”
King & Spalding’s Web site says that counsel Rowena Young in Redwood Shores, Calif. has represented Spansion “in a Section 337 Investigation in the United States International Trade Commission brought by Spansion against Samsung … involving four Spansion patents.”
King & Spalding had not filed a notice of appearance with the court as of Tuesday afternoon.