Comments on: “Law Firms Sanctioned Over Billionaire Perelman’s ‘Frivolous’ Estate Claim” https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/06/law-firms-sanctioned-over-billionaire-perelmans-frivolous-estate-claim/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:07:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ron Coleman https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/06/law-firms-sanctioned-over-billionaire-perelmans-frivolous-estate-claim/comment-page-1/#comment-92976 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:07:45 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=17890#comment-92976 Kind of an interesting sidelight on this is that Ted Wells (top litigator and pretty-up-there-top-dog at Paul Weiss) was [my boss] at Lowenstein Sandler, which is as close to white shoe (financially, anyway) as any native New Jersey firm there is, but clearly merely still acting as Ted’s New Jersey office on this case. It would be a little embarrassing to the New Jersey partner nominally in charge of this litigation, Zulima Farber, for me to say this, but (a) nah, you listen to Ted no matter what; and (b) former state Attorney General Zulima has been there already anyway.

I know what you’re thinking. Sour grapes, Coleman! Yes, they were both my former bosses at Lowenstein. And I couldn’t make it there. Just didn’t have the right stuff, you know? But hell… you could say that about just about every law firm!

]]> By: Anonymous Attorney https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/06/law-firms-sanctioned-over-billionaire-perelmans-frivolous-estate-claim/comment-page-1/#comment-92940 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:32:55 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=17890#comment-92940 Just goes to show you that when enough money is involved, white shoe firms in midtown are as willing to pursue a baseless case as any Court Street operation in Brooklyn.

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