Baker Donelson, Stuck in Ponzi-Born Case, Draws Judge’s Rebuke

The Baker Donelson law firm’s argument in an effort to extricate itself from a court-appointed receiver’s suit over a timber-harvesting Ponzi scheme is “divorced from reality,” a federal judge said.

The firm’s motion comes too late in the case for a dismissal on the pleadings and too early for summary judgment supported by evidence, Judge Carlton W. Reeves said Tuesday for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.

Reciever Alysson Mills brought claims against Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC where two employees, including an attorney, allegedly aided and abetted Arthur Lamar Adams’ $85 million Ponzi ...