Blog Names Year’s Most Infamous Lawyers
This year’s judge and lawyer scandals provided grist for a host of blog posts and a new list of the year’s 10 most infamous lawyers.
The list by the Business Insider’s Law Review blog includes two judges and Florida lawyer Scott Rothstein, accused in a $1 billion Ponzi scheme.
The first five names on the list are:
• New Jersey criminal defense lawyer Paul Bergrin, accused of witness intimidation and conspiring to murder a witness.
• Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, accused of trying to sell Barack Obama’s Senate seat.
• Law firm founder Marc Dreier, sentenced to 20 years in prison for selling bogus promissory notes to hedge funds.
• Arkansas lawyer Steven Eugene “Gene” Cauley, sentenced to 86 months in prison for stealing $9.3 million in class action settlement proceeds.
• Ropes & Gray associate Arthur Cutillo, accused of providing confidential information to the Galleon Group hedge fund.
Law Review has also posted the 10 huge law firm collapses of the decade, the top 10 celebrity lawyers, 10 celebrity endorsement deals that went way wrong, and 10 law firms that are loving the financial crisis.
Not to be outdone, the Onion has weighed in with the top 10 stories of the last 4.5 billion years, including these:
• “Four or Five Guys Pretty Much Carry Whole Renaissance”
• “Industrial Revolution Provides Millions of Out-Of-Work Children With Jobs”
