Ropes & Gray - Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

In late 2010, the firm's Boston office moved to the top office floors of the Prudential Tower in the Back Bay neighborhood.

Matthew Vincent, a former partner at Ropes & Gray, resigned from the practice of law after disclosing to the Board of Bar Overseers that he had an ownership interest in a research company, The IP Resource Company, that billed firm clients for services without explaining his link to the company to those clients.

Ropes & Gray was criticized for "stockpiling" Tamiflu, an antiviral medicine, in October 2009.

Arthur Cutillo and Brien Santarlas, formerly employed as lawyers at Ropes & Gray, were sentenced in 2011 for violation of insider trading laws, for giving information on pending mergers to stock traders in exchange for cash.

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