Lawyers from 21 countries, including the United States, UK, France, Mexico, Uruguay, Switzerland, Italy, France, Argentina, Chile, Panama, Israel, German, Lithuania, Colombia, Brazil, Austria, Ecuador, Luxembourg, Malta, and Portugal have joined together in a world alliance representing investors who lost out in the alleged $50 billion fraud by Bernard Madoff. The Times Online reports that the first meeting of the “Madoff Case Global Alliance of Law Firms” took place in Madrid yesterday.