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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955933903321

Autore

Regan Milton C

Titolo

Eat what you kill : the fall of a Wall Street lawyer / / Milton C. Regan, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2004

ISBN

1-282-59386-2

9786612593864

0-472-02591-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 p.)

Disciplina

346.73078

Soggetti

Trials (Perjury) - Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Bankruptcy lawyers - United States

Bankruptcy - United States

Legal ethics - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-394) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- The Cast -- Prologue -- Part I: Context -- 1. From "Nobody Starves" to "Eat What You Kill -- 2. Portrait of a Young Lawyer -- 3. Rust Belt Meets Wall Street -- Part II: The Bankruptcy -- 4. Rolling the Dice -- 5. A New Battlefield -- 6. Bankruptcy Trials -- Part III: The Fall -- 7. Nowhere to Hide -- 8. Gellene on Trial -- Part IV: What Happened? -- 9. Feeling Pressure -- 10. Justifying Concealment -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Notes on Sources -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

How the snare of conflicting interests between corporate America and its lawyers points to larger issues in contemporary corporate finance.