began with Ropes & Gray, where attorneys Santerlas and Cutillo passed information about pending transactions in 3Com Corp. and Axcan Pharma Inc. to Mr. Cutillo's college roommate, Jason Goldfarb, who was then a Workers' Compensation attorney with Brecher Fishman Pasternak Walsh Tilker & Zeigler.
At the top of the board were the names of Mr. Cutillo and Mr. Santerlas, with a line running down the center to the name of Jason Goldfarb and then another line running down to Zvi Goffer. From there, lines ran to the remaining five, Messrs. Drimel, Plate, Shankar, Emanuel Goffer, and finally, Mr. K