A recent report has raised questions about a Blank Rome lawyer’s work as deputy special master for the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, through which she appears to have approved millions of dollars’ worth of contracts between her own law firm and the fund.
The U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General’s audit of the fund, released last week, pointed out a potential conflict of interest created through Deborah Greenspan‘s dual role as a firm partner and deputy special master. Greenspan was the deputy special master for the fund from 2011 to 2016. During most of that time she was a partner at Dickstein Shapiro, but she joined Blank Rome in 2016 when the firm acquired more than 100 lawyers from the now-shuttered Dickstein Shapiro.
