These attorneys, all former Ohrenstein & Brown lawyers, were tenants of the WTC,   The firm received a big WTC payout.  Who were partners, who were not?  That is the question in this case. 

The common link is that these attorneys all do legal malpractice defense work. 

"In a lawsuit filed last year in Manhattan Supreme Court, former Ohrenstein & Brown partners Annmarie D’Amour, John R. Sachs and Philip Touitou charged that five other partners conspired to keep almost $4 million of the insurance money – a huge windfall for the small firm – for themselves, shutting out the firm’s other members (NYLJ, Apr. 28, 2006).

The suit alleges they did this by declaring themselves equity partners and the others non-equity, distinctions the plaintiffs claim had not existed at the firm prior to the arrival of the insurance payout. But the five partners targeted in the suit maintain Ohrenstein & Brown had long operated as a two-tier partnership in which they were the only equity partners and the only ones entitled to the money. The five partners are Manfred Ohrenstein, the former Democratic leader in the state senate; Michael Brown; Christopher Hitchcock; Geoffrey W. Heineman and Abraham Havkins.