Dewey and Leboeuf
DISCLAIMER: this blog does not now, and never has had any connection to Dewey LeBoeuf. The last time I wrote a post about the colllapse of Dewey LeBoeuf some people thought I had worked at Dewey. Last week a reader asked me to settle a bet about my blog name. Did it refer to Melville
2012 Review: The Most Popular Dewey B Strategic Posts
By Jean O'Grady on
In case you missed any of these. Here are the most popular posts of 2012:
Is Lexis the Next Acquisition for Bloomberg? January 12, 2012
Life After Leverage: New Staffing Trends in Law Firms January 23, 2012
Welcome to Bloomberg Law: No Deals No Discounts No Apology February 12, 2012
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Deconstructing Dewey’s Debt: In Search of the Missing Variables
By Jean O'Grady on
There have been some wild extrapolations of late on some of my favorite blogs regarding the meaning of Dewey & LeBoeuf’s unsecured “legal research” related debts as listed in the firm’s bankruptcy filing.
These debts are listed as follows: Thomson Reuters (owed $2.3 million), LexisNexis (owed $1.4 million.), and Wolters Kluwer/CCH (owed $650K.).
In search of |
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Dewey Leboeuf and The Due Diligence Imperative. Let The Job Seekers Beware…Prestige is not enough.
By Jean O'Grady on
Tonight Above the Law is reporting that “the end is near” for Dewey & Leboeuf and staff departures are scheduled to begin on Friday. It is a story that has become all too familiar, Heller, Brobeck, Howrey, Coudert Brothers… the mysterious alchemy of missteps, hubris and changed law firm economics. Dewey has the distinction of
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