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Attorney Speaks at Skeptics: Corporate Fraud
 Sean Coffey, BLG&B law partner and parent of Kate ’10, was the featured Society of Skeptics speaker on November 18. His topic of the evening was, “The Market Meltdown: A Painful Reminder of Why Capitalism Needs Guardrails & Gatekeepers.”
Mr. Coffey has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, The American Lawyer and BusinessWeek, and was featured on “The Wall Street Fix” on PBS’ Frontline. Mr. Coffey and senior BLB&G partner Max Berger were named two of the 2005 “Winning Attorneys of the Year” by the National Law Journal, and the September 2005 issue of Bloomberg Markets profiled Mr. Coffey as “Wall Street’s New Nemesis.”
 Prior to joining BLB&G, Mr. Coffey was a litigation partner with Latham & Watkins and an adjunct professor of law at Fordham University. He is actively involved with his alma maters, serving as vice president of the United States Naval Academy Class of 1978, and is a member of the Board of Visitors of the Georgetown University Law Center. He discussed, in his words, “a few of the more notorious corporate frauds (WorldCom, which I handled, and Enron) and how the gatekeepers (basically, everyone above after management) dropped the ball.” He also addressed the sub-prime crisis – how classic mortgage-lending worked (“originate-to-hold”) and mutated to the current situation.
A full listing of the Skeptics programs is available here.
Updated 11/18/08
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