Though not famous like Sally Ride, young Burnham was plenty well-known inside the tech finance cathedrals as the top-gun Web analyst for CSFirstBoston.
To many of the biggest multinational banks around the world, "Asian banks don't hold the attraction that opportunities closer to home do, " says John Hobson, regional bank analyst at CSFirstBoston in Hong Kong.
Bennett , on Oct. 10, eager plaintiff lawyers have lobbed more than 20 lawsuits at the now-bankrupt brokerage firm, its executives and underwriters, which include Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs Group, Deutsche Bank and CSFirstBoston.