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Dewey & LeBoeuf is readying a possible bankruptcy-protection filing for sometime in the next several weeks, a move that would initiate official liquidation of the beleaguered New York law firm.Read Full Story

Dewey & LeBoeuf is readying a possible bankruptcy-protection filing for sometime in the next several weeks, a move that would initiate official liquidation of the beleaguered New York law firm.Read Full Story

Dewey & LeBoeuf is readying a possible bankruptcy-protection filing for sometime in the next several weeks, a move that would initiate official liquidation of the beleaguered New York law firm.Read Full Story

(Reuters) - Dewey & LeBoeuf has terminated about 450 people at its New York office effective Friday, according to a lawsuit filed by an employee who complained the law firm failed to give her adequate notice.Read Full Story

Dewey & LeBoeuf is losing another member of its leadership team, as bankruptcy specialist Martin Bienenstock has decided to move his practice to Proskauer Rose.Read Full Story

Six more partners of Dewey & LeBoeuf have announced their planned exit. They include James Dwyer, who is in charge of the firm's Chicago office; John Pruitt and Cynthia Shoss, who jointly run the firm's insurance regulatory department; Jeffrey Mace, who oversees the Lloyd's of London practice; and two tax partners, Linda Sciuto and Bruce Wright, reports the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.). A Dewey spokesman said they are joining Sutherland Asbill & Brennan; however, Mark Wasserman, who heads...Read Full Story

Dewey & LeBoeuf chairman Steven Davis will no longer be leading the law firm by himself. Davis will be moving to London, and four other lawyers will join him as co-equal members of the chairman’s office, Bloomberg News reports. Bloomberg obtained a letter outlining the changes. The new co-chairman’s office includes leaders of the firm’s most profitable groups, the story says. They are restructuring chief Martin Bienenstock, corporate leader Rich Shutran, litigation head Jeffrey Kessler, and...Read Full Story

Dewey & LeBoeuf, which has already seen at least 18 of its 300 or so partners exit in the first two months of 2012, is now losing another 12. Headed to Willkie Farr & Gallagher, the latest departing partner group includes John Schwolsky, who served as co-chair of the corporate finance practice in New York; Michael Groll, who co-chaired the insurance sector group there; and Alexander Dye, who headed the firm's mergers and acquisitions practice in the United States, reports the Am Law Daily...Read Full Story

Dewey & LeBoeuf is losing Morton A. Pierce, a prominent mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer, to a New York rival, as the firm struggles to stay afloat.Read Full Story