Scott Rothstein left an ugly stain on the reputation of South Florida’s legal community that lingers five years after the bombastic lawyer’s Ponzi scheme and his 70-attorney law firm spectacularly imploded.

Yet the Rothstein case injected work—and lots of it—into a legal industry reeling from the Great Recession. Few major litigators, whether in criminal or civil law, missed out on a piece of Rothstein or the bankruptcy of his opulent Fort Lauderdale law firm, Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler.

This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.

To view this content, please continue to their sites.

Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Why am I seeing this?

LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.

For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]