A smiling (if not giggling) Sikh. Read on for it to make sense.
Malpractice suits against firms are a dime a dozen these days, and we expect to see more of them in the immediate future. Paul Weiss is the latest firm facing a headline-worthy $140 million claim.
MIG, a North Carolina-based company that invests in media and communications businesses in Eastern Europe, alleges that Paul Weiss screwed up a series of preferred stock, which caused the company to pay out dividends in both cash and common stock. The company thought the preferred should just PIK, but lost twice in Delaware courts on that issue. The company claims the most-recent loss (in May, with Greenberg Traurig as counsel) forced it into bankruptcy.
But what’s really interesting abuot this case is the lawyer on the malpractice suit. He’s quite the character. After the jump.
We’re pretty sure there’s no better way to describe the plaintiff’s lawyer than AmLaw Daily’s:
Aaron Richard Golub, a lawyer for the company, MIG Inc., did not immediately return calls. (If you think you’ve heard of Golub, it’s likely because you have. He was once married to the actress Marisa Berenson, has been a regular in the New York Post’s Page Six and has served as counsel in several high-profile divorce cases, including that of Marc and Denise Rich. He also once had a “giggling Sikh manservant,” according to this New York Times profile.)
Really. Read the profile. It contains gems like this answer to the question “Have you ever met a lawyer like me?”
Let’s see: a lawyer who has written a novel, who has a giggling Sikh manservant, who has made rock videos starring himself, who has been censured by the court for insulting a judge, who got into trouble for sleeping with a client, who owns a five-story East Side town house loaded with art, who chased the fugitive financier Marc Rich to Switzerland, who does not deny having urinated on his classmates from an upper story classroom as a youth?
About that novel… The Big Cut: A Novel
Golub may have earned a reputation as one of New York’s best trial lawyers, but judging by his slow-moving debut effort to run with the Grishams and Turows of the world, he shouldn’t quit his day job any time soon. … Golub’s plotting is often as muddled as his protagonist’s case, and the narrative veers from vague attempts to establish a noirish style, racy but ham-fisted phone conversations between Ocean and Pandora and courtroom legal scenes that fail to rev up the leaden plot. Not even a startling surprise ending can breathe life into lethargic story. (Mar.)
But Dominick Dunne is a fan!
“A tough and taut legal thriller…kept me riveted to my seat.”
The reviews don’t mention it, but the novel does feature the “giggling Sikh manservant.” That “Mr.K” then got his own feature treatment in the Observer.
How did they meet?
[Golub] said that Mr. K.’s work for the ASAP messenger service first brought him to his office, in 1986. “It was the middle of winter. It was snowing out. He arrived at my doorstep, and all I saw was a blue turban. He materialized out of the mist,” Mr. Golub said. “And he said to me, ‘I am Mr. K.’ I had never seen anything like this before. I said, ‘Would you like to work here?’ He said, ‘I will return tomorrow and give you my answer.”‘ Mr. K. giggled exuberantly.
You can’t make this stuff up.
According to the Times, Golub also had a “Chinese houseboy” who couldn’t handle Golub’s high standards and quit after six years. Good help sure is hard to find.
According to Golub’s IMDB profile, he was the executive producer of a short film, Proud Iza, in 2008, and was the writer-producer of Factory Girl, the 2008 Sienna Miller vehicle about Edie Sedgwick. As if one film about a Warhol Superstar weren’t enough, he’s also hard at work on Beautiful Darling, about Candy Darling, a transsexual who was another of the artist’s publicity vehicles.
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