* Turns out the writer/producer of TNT’s Raising the Bar is a BigLaw veteran – well, to the extent a summer at Dewey counts. He really made his chops as a public defender. Bitter Lawyer has the interview with David Feige (Chicago, Wisconsin).
A big deal, a scandal, a laid-off lawyer finds a job, and a retired baseball player uses good firms (but doesn’t pay). After the jump.
* Massive China deal involved six firms: Allen & Overy, Freshfields, Hogan & Hartson, Milbank, Paul Hastings, and Ropes & Gray. We sincerely hope none of them suffers the same fate as the Rio Tinto executives who were arrested as spies during a negotiation.
* We just reported yesterday that car czar Steve Rattner was leaving the administration. Clusterstock says he may be one step ahead of a scandal. We wouldn’t be surprised if one of the tipsters went by the name Mot Airual. Supposedly, NY AG Andrew Cuomo is investigating Rattner’s former employer, PE giant Quadrangle, for its role in a pension mess. We also previously wrote about the bad blood between Quadrangle and one of the Chrysler investors and whether that might have affected Rattner’s decisionmaking.
* We were relatively quiet about lawyer layoffs at Bank of America back in March, but we’re happy to report that we were right about that and, more importantly, at least one of the affected has landed on his feet. Bank of America Deputy GC and Director of Litigation David Onorato has joined Freshfields as a partner in New York.
* Lenny “Nails” Dykstra reportedly owes K&L Gates $1.5 million and O’Melveny $342,493, according to his bankruptcy filing.
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