2010 Most Effective Lawyers:
Richard Sharpstein and Janice Sharpstein, Jorden Burt; Ed Shohat, Shohat Loewy & Shohat

By all accounts, the government had an open-and-shut case. But it ended with a directed verdict of acquittal from a visiting judge in favor of the defense after a conflicted jury deliberated for more than day. It was also the first criminal trial tied to the collapse of Stanford Financial Group.