Miami tobacco litigator Marc Levinson knew his childhood friend and client, Nevin Shapiro, was a University of Miami athletic booster, as well as a compulsive gambler.

A Dec. 17 lawsuit filed by the bankruptcy trustee for Shapiro’s defunct company against Levinson’s law firm, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, alleged Levinson helped Shapiro pursue his company’s $930 million grocery distribution fraud.