Bloomberg Law
Aug. 22, 2016, 3:54 PM UTC

Would Ryan Lochte’s Real Lawyer Please Stand Up?

Casey Sullivan

Usually lawyers do everything they can to spread their names across the Internet, and even pay marketing staff good money to help them.

But Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s Jeffrey E. Ostrow says sometimes having your name out there isn’t such a good thing.

When his inbox was filled with reporters’ inquiries last week, it didn’t regard anything about his role as chair of the New York law firm’s intellectual property practice, or being the head of its Palo Alto office: it was because of something far more trivial.

People had mistaken him for the Florida-based lawyer representing the disgraced American swimmer Ryan Lochte, ...

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