A small % of young prosecutors acquire good litigation skills in their “pro bono” gvt work; eventually, those with deep pockets will hire best litigators to defend them (sometimes against b.s. gvt charges of a politicially ambitious prosecutor)

Similarly, clever (often centimillionaire) plaintiffs’ lawyers exist to fight lucrative cases vs “evil” companies or others; often the plaintiffs’ lawyers are entrepreneurs who are a hell of a lot richer (and often attended much crappier law schools) than any partners of blue-chip law firms often used by large companies for their defense

“Market” is often best judge of skills and value….here, courtroom outcomes and net worth of competing lawyers constitute “market”

The Brooklynites on the jury have undoubtedly spent the past 2 years watching their houses drop in value, their retirement savings evaporate, and many of their friends’ and relatives’ jobs disappear. It’s unlikely that they were inherently sympathetic to a couple of hedge fund hot-shots. The fact that the prosecutors couldn’t get a conviction out of them reveals the prosecutors’ inadequacy, not the jurors’.