So who is the worst behaved Biglaw attorney of them all? And I’m not talking about just being a jackhole — Biglaw has too many of those — but lawyers who’ve been arrested (and some convicted) for their misdeeds. That’s the question we seek to answer in this year’s March Madness pool — and it provides us with a great excuse to reminisce about some of the craziest stories from the Above the Law archives.
Earlier this week, we revealed half of the Elite Eight (voting is still open btw), and now we have the results of the Infamous and Impulse Control regions:
On to the voting!
#1 Seed Edward De Sear v. #2 Seed Evan Greebel
The first matchup features an attorney serving time –17.5 years — for truly awful crimes. Edward De Sear pleaded guilty to four counts of distribution of child pornography and to sex trafficking of a child. There isn’t any joke I can make to make the terribleness of those crimes palatable. He’s pitted against pharma douchebag Martin Shkreli’s former attorney Evan Greebel. Greebel is accused of financial crimes that allegedly allowed Shkreli to use his biotech company as his piggybank.
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#1 Seed Sarah Buffett v. #3 Seed Ryan Walsh
This is a great matchup because we’ve got two former Biglaw attorneys who just can’t keep their sh!t together. Sarah Buffett had an epic meltdown on an airplane; in fact, it was so bad the plan had to be diverted. She’s up against Ryan Walsh, who left a threatening voicemail message (retro!) for a partner after he’d been fired.
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Voting is open until March 29th at 12:00 p.m., then we’ll announce our Final Four!
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