{"id":3676,"date":"2009-04-23T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2025-09-26T01:17:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T01:17:47","slug":"who-needs-pirates-when-youve-got-lots-of-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3676","title":{"rendered":"Who needs pirates when you&#8217;ve got lots of lawyers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Been meaning to post this front page <strong>Wall Street Journal<\/strong> article from last week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123983855752122935.html#mod=testMod\"><font color=\"#800080\"><strong>Lawyers Set to Profit on Lehman &#8211; WSJ.com<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>New York-based Weil, Gotshal &amp; Manges LLP earlier this week asked a federal bankruptcy judge in New York to sign off on a $55.1 million payment for its work representing Lehman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That marks the biggest quarterly fee request made by lawyers representing a bankrupt company, according to Lynn LoPucki, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who runs a bankruptcy-fee database. &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Corporate ambulance chasing <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been meaning to post this front page Wall Street Journal article from last week. Lawyers Set to Profit on Lehman &#8211; WSJ.com New York-based Weil, Gotshal &amp; Manges LLP earlier this week asked a federal bankruptcy judge in New York to sign off on a $55.1 million payment for its work representing Lehman. That marks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10085,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions\/10085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}