by Chris Batz | May 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
A few dozen students from some of the nation’s top law schools received a distressing e-mail last Friday from Dewey & LeBoeuf. The law firm’s 2012 summer internship program, which would have paid the students more than $3,000 a week, was being canceled. On Monday,... by Chris Batz | May 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
Dewey & LeBoeuf’s latest designated savior is Martin J. Bienenstock. The NY Times says that he faces “perhaps the most challenging assignment of his career: the restructuring of his own law firm.” According to the Times, his challenges include bank negotiations to... by Chris Batz | May 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
April 30 (Bloomberg Law) — Big law firms may be headed into a down cycle they haven’t seen since the 1930s, according to Atlanta lawyer Michael Trotter, who has written the forthcoming book “Declining Prospects” about the economic cycles of the... by Chris Batz | May 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
Catering. Health Insurance. Mail and Copy Room. Partners looking. Associates told to work. See the article at: http://abovethelaw.com/2012/05/dewey-know-whats-going-to-happen-next-lawyers-and-staff-face-uncertain-future/ by Chris Batz | May 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
APRIL 30, 2012, 9:41 PM LEGAL/REGULATORY BY PETER LATTMAN Steven Davis, ex-chairman of Dewey. Dewey & LeBoeuf Encourage Partners to Leave 7:39 a.m. | Updated Dewey & LeBoeuf, the New York law firm crippled by financial mismanagement, an exodus of partners and... by Chris Batz | Apr 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
Published on Apr 25, 2012 by bloomberglaw April 25 (Bloomberg Law) — Businessweek writer Paul Barrett says the recent troubles at law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf are the leading edge of a “broad restructuring among some of the best known brand names in...