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IN RE BENNETT FUNDING GROUP, INC.

Docket Nos. 01-5062, 01-5064, 01-5066, 01-5068.

336 F.3d 94 (2003)

In re: THE BENNETT FUNDING GROUP, INC., Debtor. Richard C. Breeden, Trustee of The Bennett Funding Group, Inc., et al., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP, Richard D. Marshall, Eugene R. Licker, Storch & Brenner, LLP, Irving M. Pollack, Arthur Andersen & Company, Robinson, St. John & Wayne, et al., Defendant-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 15, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay G. Strum, Kaye Scholer, LLP, New York, New York, Dennis R. McCoy, Hiscock, Barclay, Saperston & Day, LLP, Buffalo, N.Y. for plaintiff-appellant.

Janice J. DiGennaro, Rivkin Radler LLP, Uniondale, N.Y. for defendant-appellees Robinson, St. John & Wayne, et al.

Irwin H. Warren, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, N.Y. (Robert F. Carangelo, Jeffrey M. Greilsheimer on the brief), for defendant-appellee Arthur Andersen LLP.

Richard Spinogatti, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, N.Y. (Allison B. Feld, on the brief), for defendant-appellees Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP, et al.

Gary Naftalis, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, New York, N.Y. (Gregory A. Horowitz, on the brief), for defendant-appellees Storch & Brenner, LLP, et al.

Before: JACOBS and POOLER, Circuit Judges, and BAER, Jr., District Judge.

BAER, District Judge.

Richard C. Breeden is trustee of the Bennett Funding Group, Inc. (hereinafter "BFG"), a defunct company that was used as the vehicle for a Ponzi scheme. Breeden sued, inter alia, the company's lawyers and an accounting firm on the theory that they should have detected the fraud. The trustee alleges that Arthur Anderson (hereinafter "AA") was negligent in (1) issuing "clean" opinions for BFG's 1989 and 1990 audit years and (2) failing to...

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