Coudert eyes suit against Orrick

Few organizations like paying legal fees less than big law firms, so you don’t often see legal leviathans go toe-to-toe over disputes.  But there’s a potential blockbuster brewing as Coudert Brothers, one of the firms that invented international practice, is hopping mad over the defections of all its London and Moscow partners to Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, a firm with whom it had been in merger negotiations.  Coudert is apparently investigating legal action against Orrick and the recently departed.