Mayer Brown and Weil Gotshal both had close ties to Refco, a brokerage firm that imploded in 2005. Susan Beck asks, with a senior partner facing criminal charges, why then is only Mayer Brown on the hook for $2bn?
On 26 June, 2007, Barry Colvert arrived at the midtown Manhattan office of Cooley Godward Kronish. Colvert is a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who has given polygraph tests to Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, Soviet spy Aldrich Ames and former Los Alamos nuclear weapons scientist Wen Ho Lee.
