Bloomberg Law
Nov. 7, 2016, 4:01 PM UTC

Hell Is Other Lawyers

By Paul Barrett, BloombergBusinesweek

On Memorial Day weekend, 2014, law partners Paul Napoli and Marc Bern gathered with family and friends at Napoli’s nine-bedroom second home on the waterfront in the exclusive Hamptons village of Quogue, N.Y. Guests swam in the pool, strolled on the beach, and ate a lavish lunch. For years, the Bern and Napoli families had vacationed together in such places as Italy and Greece. Napoli’s children called Bern “Uncle Marc”; to Bern’s daughter, Napoli was “Uncle Paul.”

The holiday conviviality was built on the financial success of Napoli Bern , an 80-attorney firm that occupied ...

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