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Attorney of the Year: William Scherer

The collapse of Scott Rothstein’s $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme on Halloween 2009 set off an avalanche of court filings in state and federal courts as investors lined up to try to recover some portion of the money they lost. Nearly seven years later, the major cases have all concluded—and attorney William “Bill” Scherer said his clients were not only made whole, they recovered their fees and expenses and even made interest.