Eat What You Kill: The Fall of a Wall Street Lawyer,Used

Eat What You Kill: The Fall of a Wall Street Lawyer,Used

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A wonderful character study of someone whose cognitive dissonance ('I am brilliant, therefore I must be doing everything correctly') led directly to his downfall. Students would do well to read this book before venturing forth into a large firm, a small firm, or any pressurecooker environment.'Nancy Rapoport, University of Houston Law Center'Eat What You Kill is gripping and well written. . . . It weaves in academic commentary and understanding of professional ethics issues in a way that makes it accessible to everyone.'Frank Partnoy, University of San Diego Law SchoolHe had it all, and then he lost it. But why did he do it, risking everythingwealth, success, livelihood, freedom, and the security of family?Eat What You Kill is the story of John Gellene, a rising star and bankruptcy partner at one of Wall Street's most venerable law firms. But when Gellene became entangled in a web of conflicting corporate and legal interests involving one of his clients, he was eventually charged with making false statements, indicted, found guilty of a federal crime, and sentenced to prison.Milton C. Regan Jr. uses Gellene's case to prove that such conflicting interests are now disturbingly commonplace in the world of American corporate finance. Combining a journalist's eye with sharp psychological insight, Regan spins Gellene's story into a gripping drama of fundamental tensions in modernday corporate practice and describes in perfect miniature the inexorable confluence of the interests of American corporations and their legal counselors.This confluence may seem natural enough, but because these law firms serve many masterscorporations, venture capitalists, shareholder groupsit has paradoxically led to deep, pervasive conflicts of interest. Eat What You Kill gives us the story of a man trapped in this labyrinth, and reveals the individual and systemic factors that contributed to Gellene's demise.

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