A lawyer, typically a bankruptcy lawyer or
creditor rights lawyer or commerical type lawyer, well versed in the laws on
debtor creditor- rights or the IRS collection matters, or shareholder dispute matters and who knows how to save people and businesses from financial
fiasco's, after the fact. Typically viewed by his clients as a savior and by others, typcially creditors, as snakes who use their knowledge of the law to help one person screw another out of money or some other entitlement.
He employed a financial oncologist to remove those
creditor claims for 30 cents on the dollar. The creditor was un happy but had no
recourse at the time to otherwise accepting the offer or getting
stiffed completely.