Dewey & LeBoeuf, New York Law Firm, Files for Bankruptcy
Dewey & LeBoeuf, the New York law firm crippled by financial miscues and partner
defections, filed for bankruptcy on Sunday night, punctuating the largest law
firm collapse in United States history.
The filing, made in Federal Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan, marks the final
chapter in a turbulent period for the New York-based Dewey, which unraveled
after disappointing profits and prodigious debt forced it to slash partners’
salaries. The partners, already owed millions of dollars from prior years, grew
concerned over the firm’s finances and their ability to get paid. A partner
exodus destroyed the firm.
“This is a very sad day for the legal profession,” said Richard J. Holwell, a
former federal judge in Manhattan now in private practice. “Dewey is a fabled
firm with a lot of great lawyers and a demise of this magnitude is
unprecedented.”
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