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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Courts - "White & Case’s ‘Overly Tenacious’ Tom Lauria"
That is the heading of this entry in the WSJ Law Blog, which calls Lauria "the lawyer of the hour." A quote from the end of the entry:
We’ve never heard a lawyer described as “overly tenacious,” but Lauria earned the remark from Judge Michael Lynn of the Northern District of Texas, who presided over the Mirant case. Lynn says that Lauria sometimes focuses “on the justice of his client’s position to the exclusion of the merit of the opposition’s arguments.”Paul Hastings’ Richard Chesley puts it differently: “I don’t know many lawyers in the bankruptcy practice who take the idea of zealous representation of their client as seriously as he does.”
As for Lauria, he’s chagrined by more than just the outcome of the Chrysler/Fiat situation. He says his experiences of the last month “cause me to worry that there is something very wrong with the system,” and he says he wonders “whether our judiciary is today able to fulfill its constitutional mission to ensure that the rule of law prevails — particularly in the face of perceived crisis.”
Posted by Marcia Oddi on June 10, 2009 02:11 PM
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