Kozlowski’s Acquitted Ex-Counsel Back at Practice?
Former Tyco general counsel Mark Belnick is said to be getting back to the bar. According to a source, the onetime Paul, Weiss superstar is returning to private practice six months after being acquitted of grand larceny over the $17 million bonus he got from Tyco (plus undisclosed interest-free loans). Belnick wouldn’t return calls about his plans, and his defense team from the Tyco trial is equally mum about their client’s return to the courtroom as counsel instead of defendant. “We’ve spoken quite a bit, but it’s not up to me to reveal those details,” said Robert Katzberg, who helped defend Belnick. “It’s not an attorney-client thing, it’s a friend thing.” Ex-prosecutor John Moscow, who unsuccessfully argued the case against Belnick and has since started his own firm, is still amazed at how many of Belnick’s Paul, Weiss colleagues came to root for him in court. “It’s one thing to support someone when they’re going through a trial,” says Moscow. But he wonders how professionally helpful they’ll be now.
—K.P.