When a company collapses and creditors or a trustee are looking to recoup losses, banks and accounting firms have often been targeted under the theory that it was their advice or their ignorance that allowed the collapse to occur.

In the past few years, law firms have been added to that list of third-party defendants targeted for their alleged roles in allowing fraudulent, or simply bad, business practices to continue by their clients.

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