Carlos Loumiet in Cross-Hairs Again.

After successfully beating the OCC and suing for $4 million in damages, Carlos Loumiet (now at DLA Piper) finds himself the subject of a suit by the receiver overseeing the R. Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme:

"As a partner at Greenberg Traurig and then Hunton & Williams, Carlos Loumiet helped design the basic architecture of the Ponzi scheme by helping Stanford establish and operate unlicensed foreign bank offices in the U.S. and essentially hijacking the sovereign island nation of Antigua through the use of political corruption, loans made with funds stolen from Stanford's investors, and even writing the laws that governed Stanford International Bank's operations," said plaintiff attorney Ed Snyder, who filed the complaint, in a prepared statement.

Denies impropriety

Loumiet denied any wrongdoing.

"I can say that I have never in my long career knowingly helped any client commit any wrongdoing," Loumiet said in a prepared statement. "I have never represented anyone that I knew was engaged in wrongdoing. And after years of investigations by the federal government and months of trials involving Allen Stanford and his codefendants, I have not been implicated in any wrongdoing."

Likewise, the two named law firms said they had no idea what was going on. Hunton & Williams called the suit "factually and legally baseless and an overreach by Stanford Financial Group's understandably frustrated investors."

The attorney for Greenberg Traurig, Jim Cowles, said the lawsuit is just one more in a series of legal actions intended to "pry open a deep pocket" in order to compensate victims.

More allegations from the suit here.

If Carlos beats this one too, he'll be keeping my friend Andres Rivero plenty busy.

In other news, Spencer Aronfeld speaks through an old Campbell's soup can about the recent Lawyers to the Rescue Hurricane Sandy fundraiser:

Spence -- hire a sound guy!

Always Be Nice to Your IT Guy.

It's Monday, a day where there is so much to do and so little interest in doing it.

What to write about?

We have Carlos Loumiet and several others leaving Hunton for DLA Piper.

This is my favorite part of that story:

A Hunton attorney who did not want to be identified said that no announcement had been made by the firm about the departures. The departing attorneys' names and biographies were removed from Hunton's website.

Of course!  Your fellow partners and associates are always the last to know.

Better start checking your firm's bios daily.

But at least macher Marty Steinberg had a quick retort and was fully prepared to address the mighty Julie Kay on the unannounced departures:

Marty Steinberg, Hunton's managing partner in Miami, declined comment on the departures, saying, "you'd have to ask the lawyers themselves."

I would, but their emails are down!

In other news, here is a truly inspiring story about Judge Altonaga returning to her high school to talk about grad night, dating, how to properly apply an iron-on to a tee shirt, and what going to high school in Miami in the late 70s was really like (hint:  it involved lots of Foreigner):

Wait -- David reports that she apparently talked about important topics such as race, discrimination, gender issues, and tolerance.

Kudos Your Honor for paying it forward.

More on Pedro and Ryan's Move to DLA Piper!

Wow, this is pretty cool -- it turns out Bono actually penned an ode to their enduring relationship.

Enjoy!

DLA Piper Opens Miami Office.

Pedro J. Martinez-Fraga's wanderlust continues, along with C. Ryan Reetz.

How best to describe these two, rockin' down the highway from GT to SSD, and now to DLA P?

The Dynamic Duo, Batman and Robin, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Seals and Crofts, Bert and Ernie.....believe me I could do this all night.

But they're both friends of mine, both tremendous lawyers and they're both going to DLA Piper:

Helping DLA launch in Miami are former Squire Sanders partners Pedro Martinez-Fraga and C. Ryan Reetz, both of whom predominantly advise Latin American clients on international commercial and investment treaty arbitrations. Martinez-Fraga worked at Greenberg Traurig before moving to Squire Sanders, where he has served as head of that firm's international dispute resolution practice in Florida and Latin America, according to The NLJ.

Sonny and Cher, Laurel and Hardy, Steve and Edie, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Laverne and Shirley......this is kinda fun......