Scott Rothstein left an ugly stain on the reputation of South Florida’s legal community that lingers five years after the bombastic lawyer’s Ponzi scheme and his 70-attorney law firm spectacularly imploded.

Yet the Rothstein case injected work—and lots of it—into a legal industry reeling from the Great Recession. Few major litigators, whether in criminal or civil law, missed out on a piece of Rothstein or the bankruptcy of his opulent Fort Lauderdale law firm, Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler.