Biglaw Partner Runs Face First Into Contempt Order

Above the Law reports that a U.S. District Judge delivered a benchslap to a Baker Donelson partner and a senior public policy advisor after they tried to jump the line in a receivership situation involving a hundred-million-dollar Ponzi scheme.

The judge had put a hold on any individual victim trying to carve back money in lieu of allowing a receiver to get the maximum recovery for all victims, but then Jon Seawright, the Baker Donelson partner, and Brent Alexander, the firm’s lobbyist, went out and tried to recover some money.

The judge responded with a lecture about the concept of a receivership, using the boarding process on Southwest Airlines as an example, writes Above the Law’s Joe Patrice.

Read the Above the Law article.