May 1 (Bloomberg) -- Corinne Ball , the lawyer behind Chrysler LLC’s bankruptcy, is a “brilliant” strategist who will need to quickly cut a deal with lenders that forced the automaker into court protection, said attorneys who know her.
A 59-year-old lawyer with an Atlanta-based firm who was about to lose his job because of the economy was found dead in his Washington office yesterday of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to police.
A prominent lawyer who was laid off this week was found dead in an apparent suicide at in his downtown D.C. office. D.C. police received a report Thursday morning of a shooting at the 11th-floor office of Kilpatrick Stockton and found Mark I. Levy dead alone in his own office.
Allen Stanford, the Texas billionaire facing civil fraud charges, attempted to turn himself in at the federal courthouse in Houston on Thursday, but was turned away because there is no warrant for his arrest, his lawyer said.
A lawyer representing Steve Jobs in a housing dispute has said the head of Apple did not attend a hearing because he was too weak.
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