While a majority of the legal profession was packing it in for the Thanksgiving holiday last year, a team of Cozen O’Connor attorneys could be found in a Harrisburg bankruptcy courtroom.

The attorneys, Neal Colton, who co-chairs the bankruptcy department, and Jeffrey Weil, co-chair of the firm’s litigation department, represented the state of Pennsylvania in a closely followed dispute over how its capital would overcome a blistering mountain of debt that, at one point, was threatening to cripple the city of Harrisburg.