Allen & Overy litigation senior counsel Patricia Hynes has landed a role advising Lehman Brothers’ beleaguered CEO Richard Fuld, reports The Am Law Daily.

Hynes – a former name partner at Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach and a onetime assistant US attorney in New York’s Southern District – led several major cases against brokerages and investment houses such as Drexel Burnham Lambert and Paine Webber through the 1980s and 1990s.