Correction, 8/6/2012, 11:30 a.m. EDT: An earlier version of this story misspelled the name of attorney Thomas Willoughby. It has been corrected in the 22nd and 23rd paragraphs below. We regret the error.
When former Heller Ehrman shareholder Nancy Sher Cohen thinks back on what it was like to live through the aftermath of that firm’s 2008 collapse, the memories aren’t pleasant. And one of the most difficult things about that period, she says, was the pressure she felt from those overseeing her former firm’s bankruptcy to make what seemed like a no-win choice: repay the Heller estate money she felt she had rightfully earned in order to satisfy creditors or face the threat of litigation that could drag on for years.
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