A steady stream of legal assignments related to the ongoing bankruptcy of now defunct investment bank Lehman Brothers has at least 12 firms reaping the rewards, including companies providing e-discovery services and contract attorneys.

Lawyers for the debtor have been busy in U.S. bankruptcy court in Manhattan, pressing JPMorgan Chase for dismissal of a suit over $70 billion the bank lent Lehman in the days before its collapse in September 2008. JPMorgan, represented by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, is asking the court to dismiss a Lehman claim seeking $8.6 billion in cash taken as collateral before Lehman slid into Chapter 11.

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