On the final day of Legaltech 2015, attendees got a chance to see major participants in the ongoing litigation involving oil company Chevron Corp. and Ecuador. Also on hand were two journalists who had written extensively about the case. It made for an explosive way to kick off the final day of the event.

The panel was moderated by Patrick Oot, partner at Shook Hardy & Bacon and included Paul M. Barrett, assistant managing editor and senior writer, Bloomberg BusinessWeek (and author of “Law of the Jungle”) and Michael Goldhaber, senior international correspondent for The American Lawyer (and author of “Crude Justice.”) But the big draw of the panel was the promised appearance of two lawyers intimately tied to the case, Reed Brodsky, partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, who had represented Chevron, and the infamous Steven Donziger, the attorney who had won a billion-dollar lawsuit against the oil giant, but who has subsequently been linked to allegations of fraud and corruption.

To summarize the situation: Donziger brought a lawsuit against Texaco, accusing the oil company of polluting land in Ecuador, leading to widespread environmental damage and health problems. Courts in Ecuador arrived at a multibillion dollar judgment against Chevron, which acquired Texaco. Chevron accused Donziger of fraud and corruption, alleging that he and his co-conspirators bribed judges and ghost wrote testimony and decisions. The case against Donziger ended up in front of Judge Lewis Kaplan, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.