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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 May 8, 2012

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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*Hat tip to Melville Dewey, 19th century efficiency reformer, founder of the first School of Library Economy, and inventor of the eponymous decimal classification system based on Sir Francis Bacon's outline of human knowledge.

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Jean P. O’Grady has over 30 years of experience developing strategic information initiatives for Am Law 100 law firms.

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