It's been nearly a decade since Irving Picard was appointed trustee of the funds recovered for victims of Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme. The matter is still generating payouts for victims and Baker & Hostetler, where Picard is a partner in New York.

Last month, a federal judge approved a nearly $36 million payment for four months of work by the firm, bringing Baker & Hostetler's total fees for the matter to just shy of $925 million.

This week, Picard also reached the largest settlement related to the dissolution of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS) since 2011—a $687 million payout from an Irish investment firm that will bring the total recovery for Madoff victims to about $12.7 billion, or about 72 percent of the $17.5 billion that Picard states that Madoff's investors lost.