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Also wild is that this tactic won Allison Brown the "Litigator of the Year" award from American Lawyer. Truly a cursed profession in a lot of ways.

https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2022/11/22/litigator-of-t...

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I'm unsure of the criteria for the reward, but it appears that they considered it an impressive effort to defend an unsympathetic client.

The public benefit from presenting a vigorous defense in all cases (not just ones with sympathetic defendants) is to require the prosecution, as a matter of course, to actually prove their case in accordance with the law, something which should be required in a fair court system.

*award

How does a corporation filing a sham bankruptcy to avoid paying out a legally mandated penalty improve justice?

I can just as easily say that this tactic degrades prosecutorial effectiveness because it disincentives lawyers from taking cases. The corporations will just spin off and kill a business unit and no one gets compensated.

Because Captailism has corrupted our institutions to the point that money rules everything. Democracy and Justice is only for those with enough cash. Like the big4 accounting firms, they arnt the big 4 because they serve the public the public interest. They are the goto because they have the influence and the knowledge to extract as much cash as possible from democracies.

Also, they enable money laundering on massive scales. KPMG, I’m staring at you.

If I'm reading it correctly, the award was not for inventing or implementing the bankrupcty tactic, but for litigating the two cases.

I would have named the award "The Year of the Alligator".

Of course alligators don’t eat lawyers. Professional courtesy.

Her performance as a trial lawyer in these cases has been nothing short of average. It’s shocking that she managed to eek out any defense verdicts at all in the underlying litigation.

People like this should be hung from a light post and beaten with sticks as a warning to the rest of them that this shit will not be tolerated.

That's how society handled snakes and demons for most of human history. It's arguable societal decline stems from moving away from this approach.

Be carefull what you wish for, I can see a few startup founders will be ranking high as candidates for the same treatment.

If the law is the primary obstacle preventing the majority from beating unscrupulous CEOs to within an inch of their life, then perhaps the majority should consider passing legislation that permits this as the current set of laws has abjectly failed.

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