On September 15, 2008, the largest bankruptcy case in history began when lawyers from Weil, Gotshal & Manges filed a Chapter 11 petition on behalf of client Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. with the U.S. bankruptcy court in Manhattan.

Lehman retrospectives were all the rage this week amid the fifth anniversary of the now-defunct investment bank’s stunning collapse, which Weil bankruptcy bigwig Harvey Miller has called a " tragic error" on the part of government regulators who in his mind allowed the financial services giant to fail.

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