Re: Proposed Co-Counsel Dewey and Lebeouf
La trama va en aumento (El Juez) nuestro Juez de Ghost
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So, here we have a lawyer who is tops in his field, with 32 years of experience. He's written the definitive bankruptcy reorganization practice guide (PLI publications are the standard reference works for lawyers) and he is so good Harvard Law School made him a professor, even though he's too busy to do that more than part time. His co-founded and ran (with Marcia) Weil's premier bankruptcy group (which is the firm's core claim to fame) and mentored and supervised Brian Rosen and the rest of them.
(They probably think he's a god.) And now he could retire as a gazillionaire at age 55, but instead he wants to do something new, creative, and different that the stuffed shirts at Weil won't go along with. So, instead of hanging on and drawing a seven or eight figure paycheck for doing what he already knows he can do well, or retiring and playing golf and hanging out with his grand kids, he completely sticks his neck out by leaving Weil, starting a new enterprise, and taking a brain trust of hot talent with him.
He's worked with Mike Willingham before of the Enron case, where they won a major victory, and therefore is presumably respected and sought after by Mike. He's knows how Weil acts and thinks, and can use that knowledge for our benefit And now he's willing to step up to the plate, go toe-to-toe with his old firm on one of the biggest cases he'll ever see, an give us the benefit of all that experience and insight. You don't think he wants to win this game? He is all about building and winning and "the next big challenge". He's a player! And people are being paranoid and cynical and suspicious about that?
I know this saga is making everybody hate lawyers even more than before. That's nothing new: Just read Shakespeare. But even if you're thinking "he's just another asshole lawyer", still, it looks like he's OUR asshole lawyer now, and I say "Welcome aboard!"
This is getting very interesting.