Mr. Roper as receiver

After 21 years of service to the government, Richard Roper, former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas, has seen his private practice boom in just four months. Now a partner in Dallas ' Thompson & Knight, on March 26 he was appointed the receiver in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Millennium Bank, et al. As receiver, he’ll take control of the assets and records of Millennium Bank and the other defendants. In Millennium, the SEC obtained a temporary restraining order to halt what it alleges were the defendants’ “unlawful activities” and “violations of the Securities Act.” In February, the receiver in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Stanford International Ltd., et al., hired Roper and several other counsel to assist the receiver in overseeing the frozen assets in the multibillion-dollar federal fraud investigation of R. Allen Stanford, his Stanford Group companies and other defendants. Both the Stanford receivership representation and the Millennium receiver work mean Roper is keeping himself and quite a few other lawyers at Thompson & Knight busy. That’s not a bad way to start a new job. Roper declines to say how many Thompson & Knight lawyers are working on the Millennium and Stanford matters. "I don't want to sound like I'm bragging," he says. The receivership in both cases is challenging, he says. “I feel sorry for these victims. And I hope eventually it proves to be rewarding."
-- Miriam Rozen