Financial Crisis

6 Share: 'What I Did During the Meltdown'

“We had to talk to the debtors to get smart”
Dennis Dunne, partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

“Every day was totally pressure-filled, client-filled. There was no break.”
H. Rodgin Cohen, chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell

“I need to advise them to fall behind on their payments, and that’s ludicrous to me.”
Arnettia Wright, sole practitioner, Wright Law Group

“You can’t calm directors by telling them it’s all going to be OK.”
Robert Joffe, partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore

“The best time to get divorced for the moneyed spouse is when everything has gone to the devil.”
Eleanor Breitel Alter, partner with Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman

“All of these state regulators are involved; the press is waiting outside. The stakes are high.”
Angela Angelakos, enforcement attorney, Office of the Illinois Secretary of State, Securities Department