The wall of Marc Nurik’s office in Fort Lauderdale is covered with photos: Vito Corleone, O.J. Simpson, Al Capone, Tony Montana, the Sopranos. Nurik calls it his “client intelligence test.” When meeting with potential clients, he asks which of the characters on his wall are real. “A lot of seemingly intelligent people–people who have managed to remove millions of dollars from others with just a pen–often say that the Sopranos are real,” says Nurik, whose well-kept mustache, penchant for pinstripes, and hint of a Brooklyn accent further blur the lines between reality and central casting. “The power of television,” adds Nurik, a veteran of a short-lived (very short-lived) producing career.
There’s one current Nurik client who’s never taken the test: disgraced Florida lawyer and Ponzi-schemer Scott Rothstein, who pleaded guilty in January to charges stemming from the $1.2 billion fraud he ran out of his law firm’s offices. Nurik is not only Rothstein’s lawyer, but also his former nonequity partner at Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler–the failed 70-lawyer firm that prosecutors called a “criminal enterprise.” Nurik resigned from the firm just before it disbanded last fall in order to take Rothstein’s case. “I took a leap of faith and jumped. I’m still waiting for the parachute to open,” Nurik says.
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