Seth Aronson

Around the country, he's known as a perspicacious, hard-nosed litigator who can go toe-to-toe with the most aggressive plaintiff lawyer. You usually can find him in the middle of the action like when he helped Bank of America earlier this year to fend off an onslaught of shareholder litigation and close its purchase of Countrywide Financial. He also has been steering the general counsel of Broadcom through a wave of securities fraud suits. Recently, he represented Vitesse Semiconductors as it weathered an accounting scandal and investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.