Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
Bankruptcy is what you want to avoid at all costs. The trustee in law firm bankruptcies claws back compensation against individual partners. So that is why, if you’re a law firm or an accounting firm, bankruptcy cases are not pretty.
— Leslie Corwin, a lawyer at Duane Morris who’s overseen numerous law firm wind-downs, in comments given to Bloomberg Law on why Stroock & Stroock & Lavan will be trying its hardest to stay out of bankruptcy during its dissolution and wind down.
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