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• Dewey & LeBouef's leaders explain the firm's collapse

  May 18 2012 This article gives an account of an interview in DealBook with Martin Bienenstock and L. Charles Landgraf, both of whom served as the ‘office of the Chairman’ at Dewey... more

• Former London MP from Dewey offers trainees a lifeline

  May 18 2012 The London trainees at Dewey & LeBoeuf have been offered positions by their former London Managing Partner, Peter Sharp. Sharp departed to take up a role at Morgan... more

• Long term thinking could save biglaw

  May 16 2012 Here is an interesting article by Mark Harris, the chief executive of Axiom Law, a 900-person new-model legal services firm. Harris attempts to diagnose some of the... more

• Departing Dewey partner claims $61m from firm

  May 15 2012 As the partnership of Dewey & Lebouef’s partnership scatters across the legal services market, one senior partner has made an audacious claim against the firm,... more

• Exodus of Dewey partners includes half of the firm's leadership team

  May 10 2012 Winston & Strawn has scooped up 24 litigation partners from ailing law firm Dewey & LeBouef, taking on a group of around 60 lawyers in total. Among the transferring... more

• Exodus of Dewey partners includes half of the firm's leadership team

  May 10 2012 Winston & Strawn has scooped up 24 litigation partners from ailing law firm Dewey & LeBouef, taking on a group of around 60 lawyers in total. Among the transferring... more

• Dewey continues to lose talent

  May 04 2012 Dewey & LeBoeuf continues to hemorrhage its lawyer base, with the Moscow team jumping ship to open a Russia base for Morgan Lewis & Bockius, while London banking and... more

• Law firms lose reputation as low credit risk

  May 03 2012 The turmoil over at New York firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, a large and prestigious name in the business - has forced many industry observers to take stock and pose some... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf ousts former chairman, while merger negotiations fail

  Apr 30 2012 Troubled US law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has dumped former chairman Steven H. Davis, who is under criminal investigation for alleged financial improprieties.... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf has until the end of the month to negotiate debt problem

  Apr 27 2012 Reports are circulating that troubled New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf is facing serious debt problems, and has until the end of the month to negotiate extending a... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf loses senior London partner to KPMG

  Apr 25 2012 Dewey & LeBoeuf has lost one of the firm’s most senior London partners, Fred Gander. Gander, a taxation specialist who has been with Dewey since 1991, will join KPMG... more

• When large law firms fail, we need to re-examine the business model

  Apr 24 2012 Here is a very good article that addresses the question of why large law firms fail. The article points out that a dozen firms that have folded over the past ten... more

• Dewey's Hong Kong office is unaffected by the firm's troubles, says MP

  Apr 24 2012 Dewey & LeBoeuf has said that its troubles in the US have no bearing upon its operation in Hong Kong. Hong Kong managing partner Heng Loong Cheong said: “The Hong Kong... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf to restructure Middle East practice after further departures

  Apr 23 2012 Dewey & LeBoeuf has initated a restructuring of its middle east operations, which could result in the closure of the firm’s Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha offices. The... more

• More partners walk away from Dewey & LeBoeuf

  Apr 11 2012 US firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has not yet managed to stem the flow of departing partners, with another two announcing their intention to leave the firm’s London office.... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf loses six more partners

  Apr 06 2012 New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has seen six more partners and one of counsel resign this week, bringing the number of partner departures this year to 46, out of the... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf in discussions with its bankers over 9-figure debt

  Apr 04 2012 Troubled US firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has confirmed that it is in discussions with its bankers concerning the large debt that stands on the firm’s accounts. The firm’s... more

• Another partner leaves Dewey & LeBoeuf

  Mar 30 2012 The dramatic overhaul in the management structure at Dewey & LeBoeuf has not yet stemmed the flow of partners leaving the firm, with antitrust litigator lawyer Eamon... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf shakes up management team in response to stream of departures

  Mar 28 2012 Dewey & LeBoeuf is changing its leadership strategy, with a plan to appoint London partner Stephen Horvath to a new role of executive partner. The plan proposes... more

• Another six partners depart from Dewey & LeBoeuf

  Mar 26 2012 There is surely some hand wringing going on in firm management at Dewey & LeBoeuf, as six more partners announce that they are leaving the firm. The departing... more

• 12 partners depart troubled NY firm Dewey & LeBoeuf

  Mar 19 2012 Twelve insurance law partners from Dewey & LeBoeuf resigned on Friday of last week. The group is headed to Willkie Farr & Gallagher, bringing the total number of... more

• Lateral hiring among large firms heats up

  Mar 08 2012 The lateral hiring market is booming, with large law firms eagerly scooping up talent in the hope that it is followed by a solid book of business. The AM Law Daily... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf set to make layoffs

  Mar 07 2012 Dewey & LeBoeuf will be conducting layoffs and other cost-cutting measures, according to firm-wide memo from Chairman Steven H. Davis. The memo came after the... more

• Where are they now? The Howrey lawyers make their way

  Feb 01 2012 In the year before Howrey went under, the firm had a headcount of 242 lawyers in Washington. After the firm’s collapse on March 15, 2011, those lawyers flooded the... more

• Davis Polk and Dewey take leading roles on $5.7 bn hostile takeover bid

  Jan 28 2012 Davis Polk & Wardwell and Dewey & Boeuf 40] have taken lead roles in the leadup to a $5.7 hostile takeover bud for San Diego–based gene-mapping equipment-maker... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf boosts South Africa practice with hire of 12 attorneys

  Jan 06 2012 Dewey & LeBoeuf has announced the addition of eight partners and four associates to its Johannesburg office. The lawyers come from leading South African firm Werksmans... more

• Wachtell, Jones Day lead on $18.4bn sale of Goodrich to United Technologies

  Sep 23 2011 United Technologies Corporation is set to purchase $18.4 billion for aircraft equipment maker Goodrich Corporation. The deal will see United Technologies aquire the... more

• Williams & Connely takes first rank in "Best Law Firms to Work For" list

  Jul 13 2011 Vault has released its “Best Law Firms to Work For” list – ranking law firms on the basis of associate satisfaction. The top ten firms from the list are as follows:... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf boosts private equity practice with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius hire

  Jun 23 2011 Dewey & LeBoeuf is expanding its private equity practice with the hire of partner Ira White from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. White will become the co-chair of the firm’s... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf boost London PE practice with double hire from Taylor Wessing

  May 23 2011 US firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has boosted its UK private equity practice with the hire of two partners from Taylor Wessing. Mark Davis - the former private equity head at... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf follows spring bonus trend

  Mar 17 2011 Dewey & LeBoeuf has made the relatively late that it will pay spring bonuses at the top-of-market rate set by Cravath Swaine & Moore. These bonuses are additional to... more

• Howrey partners jump ship

  Mar 16 2011 Howrey lawyers are leaping to other firms after the firm announced its imminent dissolution. Construction litigation partners David Mancini and James Newland Jr are... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf bolsters bankruptcy team in LA and SF

  Feb 08 2011 Dewey LeBoeuf has bolstered its bankruptcy practice with the hire of 10 specialists from Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman, including a co-founding partner, Bruce Bennett.... more

• Sullivan & Cromwell partner dodges mandatory retirement by joining Dewey

  Feb 02 2011 Sullivan & Cromwell partner James Carter has moved to Dewey & LeBoeuf, one of the few large law firms without a mandatory retirement policy. Carter faced the prospect... more

• Howrey loses three IP partners to Dewey & LeBoeuf

  Jan 19 2011 Howrey has lost star intellectual-property lawyer and vice chairman Henry Bunsow to rival firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, where Bunsow will take up a position as co-chair of the... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf announces new policy to give lawyers 'a reasonable amount of paid time off'

  Jan 11 2011 Dewey & LeBoeuf has announced a new policy on paid leave, removing the cap on vacation days. A memo outlining the scheme – in particularly vague terms – said... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf promotes four to partnership

  Jan 04 2011 Dewey & LeBoeuf has promoted four lawyers to the partnership in their annual promotions round, down from six promotions in 2009 and 20 in the golden age of 2008.... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf follows Cravath bonus scale

  Dec 08 2010 Dewey & LeBoeuf has announced bonuses for its US counsel and associates, with the firm essentially following the scale set by Cravath, Swaine & Moore. The... more

• Ashurst boosts European equity capital markets practice with Dewey hire

  Nov 15 2010 Ashurst has boosted its European equity capital markets team with the hire of Dewey & LeBoeuf partner Matthias Von Oppen in Frankfurt. Von Oppen is a corporate... more

• Thirteen lawyers defect from Dewey & LeBoeuf to Katten Muchin Rosenman

  Nov 03 2010 The former co-chair of Dewey & LeBoeuf’s structured finance group, Christopher DiAngelo, is leaving the firm to join Katten Muchin Rosenman’s New York office. He will... more

• US firm Dewey & LeBoeuf launches in Abu Dhabi

  Oct 08 2010 US firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has launched an office in Abu Dhabi, making its fourth base in the Middle East alongside offices in Doha, Dubai and Riyadh. The new branch... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf encourage diversity in outside counsel

  Aug 25 2010 Dewey & LeBoeuf have been promoting diversity beyond their own offices, sending letters to general counsel encouraging them seek diverse (female, ethnic minority or... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf ‘pauses’ summer program in three US offices

  Jul 28 2010 Dewey & LeBoeuf has announced that its 2011 summer program will be ‘paused’ in Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston. The number of people affected by the decision is... more

• KPMG hires duo from Dewey & LeBoeuf

  Jun 11 2010 KPMG has hired two partners from Dewey & LeBoeuf. Devon Bodoh joins the accounting giant’s Washington corporate group to advise on a range of tax matters, and... more

• Vedanta buys Anglo’s Zinc Mine Assets: Dewey & LeBoeuf advise

  May 14 2010 UK-based Vedanta Resources, one of India’s largest mining companies, acquired the zinc assets of another UK-based mining and natural resource group, Anglo American... more

• Four firms guide $2.7 billion IPO in Poland

  May 13 2010 Poland's largest insurer, PZU, has raised nearly $2.7 billion through an initial public offering. The offering is part of a larger effort by the Polish government to... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf raises $125 million bond

  Apr 20 2010 US law firms generally have conservative borrowing habits, looking to major banks and partners’ contributions to raise capital. But Dewey & LeBoeuf has bucked the... more

• Allen & Overy hires three new partners in Germany

  Apr 16 2010 Allen & Overy has boosted its German practice with the hire of three partners from Lovells and Dewey & LeBoeuf. Litigation partner Daniel Busse will leave the... more

• Davis Polk & Wardwell report 10% increase in profits for equity partners

  Mar 15 2010 2009 was a tough year for many law firms, but Davis Polk & Wardwell has bucked the trend, reporting a 10% increase in profits per equity partner (from US$1.9M in 2008... more

• Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer hires three litigation partners for US practice

  Mar 11 2010 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has boosted its US litigation capability with the hire of three new partners. Marshall Fishman (from Kramer Levin Naftalis &... more

• Revenues are down, so why are these equity partners in such a good mood?

  Mar 10 2010 Cost cutting efforts in a number of major law firms have resulted in high profit per partner figures despite a decrease in revenue. At Dewey & LeBoeuf, gross... more

• Dewey loses City employment group to Morgan Lewis

  Mar 05 2010 Dewey & LeBoeuf's employment group in London, a three-lawyer team headed by partner Matthew Howse, joined Morgan Lewis this week. A spokesman for Dewey said the... more

• Lovells hires Dewey banking partner Michel Quere for Paris office

  Jan 15 2010 Lovells has hired high-profile banking partner Michel Quere from Dewey & LeBoeuf, reports legalweek. Quere was charged with co-managing Dewey & LeBoeuf's Paris... more

• Skadden is top global M&A adviser in 2009

  Jan 08 2010 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom overtook its UK competitor Linklaters LLP to advise on the highest value of mergers and acquisitions in 2009 according to... more

• Fasken launches in Paris with local merger and Dewey hires

  Sep 23 2009 Fasken Martineau has opened an new office in Paris through a merger with seven-lawyer Paris firm Gravel Leclerc & Partners and the addition of a four-lawyer team from... more

• Hennigan Bennett represents Skype founders in eBay lawsuit

  Sep 18 2009 The founders of Skype are suing eBay for copyright infringement, a move that could block eBay's deal to sell a majority stake in Skype to a group of private investors... more

• Latham ousts Dewey in Adobe's $1.8bn Omniture takeover

  Sep 18 2009 Latham & Watkins advised Adobe on its acquisition of Analytics company Omniture for $1.8 billion, with Silicon Valley partners Peter Kerman, Glenn Nash, and Luke... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf represents eBay on $1.9bn Skype deal

  Sep 03 2009 Just one month after hiring eBay's longtime advisers from Cooley Godward Kronish, Dewey & LeBoeuf has won a mandate to represent the acution site on its $1.9bn deal to... more

• Dewey and Paul Hastings lead on Disney-Marvel megadeal

  Sep 01 2009 US law firms Dewey & LeBoeuf and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker have won lead roles on Walt Disney's $4 billion acquisition of Marvel Entertainment. The deal... more

• Dewey hires star M&A team from Cooley

  Jul 09 2009 Dewey & LeBoeuf has hired three partners from Cooley Godward Kronish, including Richard Climan, one of the Silicon Valley firm’s top rainmakers and head of Cooley’s... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf faces $3 billion negligence claim

  Jun 09 2009 UK law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has been hit with a negligence claims of more than $3 billion by the liquidators of General American Life Insurance, a major insurance... more

• Law firms will make millions in GM bankruptcy

  Jun 02 2009 General Motors’ bankruptcy filing today will divert millions of dollars to bankruptcy lawyers at two major New York firms - Weil Gotshal and Dewey & LeBoeuf. more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf's Eric Schwartz to join King & Spalding

  Apr 27 2009 Eric Schwartz, most recently head of Dewey & LeBoeuf's arbitration practice, has joined US-based King & Spalding. Schwartz will assist in launching King & Spalding's... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf revises compensation system, cutting pay

  Mar 17 2009 Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP will be drastically reducing the compensation provided to 50-60 partners by varying amounts, often more than 75%. The cuts come as part of an... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf cuts pay of 66 partners by 80 percent

  Mar 15 2009 Dewey & LeBoeuf has cut pay for 66 partners by as much as 80 percent over the past 15 months, reports the Am Law Daily. Lower-tier partners have saw drastic... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf, O’Melveny, Shearman cut 400 more jobs

  Mar 04 2009 Dewey & LeBoeuf and O’Melveny & Myers announced that they will lay off about 330 lawyers and staff blaming weak demand for legal work because of the economic crisis.... more

• Sullivan, Skadden and Davis Polk post falling profits in 2008

  Feb 12 2009 Wall Street leaders Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Sullivan & Cromwell and Davis Polk & Wardwell have all seen falling profits and flat revenues in 2008. Dewey... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf to shut down San Francisco office

  Feb 04 2009 Dewey & LeBoeuf will close its San Francisco office and move all attorneys and staff to East Palo Alto. The combined office will have nine partners and about 20... more

• Dewey hires Weil Gotshal bankruptcy partner Michael Kessler

  Jan 21 2009 Dewey & LeBoeuf has hired Weil, Gotshal & Manges partner Michael Kessler, who joins the business solutions and governance practice in New York. Kessler follows... more

• Judge cuts Dewey & LeBoeuf's "excessive" fees by 20 percent

  Jan 06 2009 The Natonal Law Journal reports that a New York federal judge cut Dewey & LeBoeuf's fees for its work on a securities receivership case by 20 percent to $1.7 million,... more

• GM hires Weil Gotshal for possible bankruptcy case

  Dec 12 2008 GM is preparing for the worst. Its management tapped bankruptcy veteran Harvey Miller of the New York law firm, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP. Restructuring veterans Jay... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf promotes 20 to partnership

  Dec 10 2008 The international law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP today announced that the firm has appointed 20 new partners globally, effective January 1, 2009. more

• Dewey, Cleary Gottlieb, Milbank cut associate bonuses

  Dec 04 2008 Dewey & LeBoeuf, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, and Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy have reduced the rate for year-end associate bonuses. According to The Lawyer,... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf completes largest African bank loan

  Nov 25 2008 A team of lawyers from the Johannesburg and Washington, DC offices of Dewey & LeBoeuf, led by Washington, DC Partner Gregory Smith, advised Eskom, the South African... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf inks €5bn Russian investment for Fortum

  Nov 07 2008 Finnish electricity business Fortum Oyj has finalised a landmark €5bn Russian investment, with Dewey & LeBoeuf’s London and Moscow offices acting as lead legal counsel. more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf puts monthly partner drawings on hold

  Nov 03 2008 Dewey & LeBoeuf has ­suspended monthly partner distributions due to the economic situation, with partners last receiving a payment in August. more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf to close North Carolina office

  Oct 21 2008 Dewey & LeBoeuf has announced that it will close its Charlotte, N.C., office by the end of this year, citing the consolidation of the banking sector and slowdown in... more