Dewey & LeBoeuf
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11th Circuit, Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Fashion, Fashion Is Fun, Federal Judges, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Trademarks
Morning Docket: 05.03.12
* With the SNR Denton merger talks dead, partners waiting only to be paid before they leave, and sad, empty tables at events, LeBoeuf seems to be cooked. [DealBook / New York Times; Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)]
* A gem from the Eleventh Circuit: if you believe it’s newsworthy, it is. Even naked pictures of dead girls. Now stop hoping a hot girl dies, sickos. [CNN]
* If there’s one thing federal judges are good at, it’s keeping their law clerks white. They’ve made zero progress in increasing diversity. [National Law Journal]
* Some law school grads bitch and moan about the “student loan scam,” but others just do what they went to school for, and sue about it. [ABC News]
* The social media machine that is Mark O’Mara can’t be stopped — judge’s orders. And George Zimmerman is going to like and retweet that until the cows come home. [Boston Herald]
* Here’s infringing on you, kid. British fashion house Burberry insists that a California company stop Bogarting its rights to Humphrey’s trademark and likeness, all for the sake of promotional materials. [Bloomberg]
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Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Crime, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Dewey Ballantine, Dissolution, Kimba Wood, Law Firm Mergers, Law Firm Names, LeBoeuf Lamb, Money, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, White-Collar Crime
Dewey Know Whom To Blame? Some Say 'Steve'
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Art, Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Dissolution, ERISA, Food, Health Care / Medicine, Holland & Knight, JPMorgan Chase, Lateral Moves, Money, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues
Dewey Know What's Going To Happen Next? Lawyers and Staff Face Uncertain Future
What is the latest news and rumor about Dewey & LeBoeuf? Not good, for starters....
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Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Election Law, LSAT, Non-Sequiturs, Sports
Non-Sequiturs: 05.01.12
* Now wait a minute, I think being a Biglaw lawyer can be pretty disappointing, but nothing compares to Jar-Jar. [Constitutional Daily] * How much child support does an aging supermodel need? Sorry, lemme rephrase lest you think I’m calling supermodels child-like. How much does an aging supermodel need for child support? [Fashionista] * It is kind of funny that we still “swear people in” before they testify. [Simple Justice] * You really have to go out of your way to find voter fraud. [Election Law Blog] * Is it time to make horse racing illegal? I mean, people only watch it once a year anyway. [Legal Blitz] * I’m not sure what the point would be of dropping the LSAT requirement. So schools who can’t attract students who do well on the LSAT don’t get embarrassed by U.S. News every year? Oh wait, yeah that’s it. [LSAT Blog] * Yeah, I’m pretty sure everybody who was ever let go by either Dewey or LeBoeuf is feeling pretty good right now. [Huffington Post] * Honestly cannot deal with Occupy anymore. It’s an election year. How are these people not in a phone bank? [Dealbreaker] -
Bankruptcy, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Dissolution, Lateral Moves, Law Firm Mergers, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Patton Boggs, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Dewey Have Any Shot of Surviving? Internal Memo Urges Partners To Seek 'Alternative Opportunities'
An internal memo urges partners at Dewey & LeBoeuf to seek "alternative opportunities." Yikes.... -
Biglaw, Deaths, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Fashion, Fashion Is Fun, Food, John Edwards, Law Schools, Morning Docket, New Jersey, Shoes, Trademarks, Trials
Morning Docket: 05.01.12
* Dewey really need to keep coming up with punny headlines about D&L’s painful probe? Pass the lube, ’cause you better believe we dew! Steven Davis, the firm’s former chairman, has hired Barry Bohrer, a white-collar criminal lawyer. [WSJ Law Blog]
* “Of course all of that money for my baby mama is legal. I… uh… checked with my lawyers. Um, yeah. Just get the money in.” Cheri Young gave some pretty damning testimony yesterday during the John Edwards campaign-finance violations trial. [CNN]
* As if you didn’t have enough to worry about during finals, Law School Transparency has come out with a new clearinghouse that includes employment outcomes, salaries, and student debt loads. [National Law Journal]
* “I do not own a color. I own a specific color in a specific place.” Christian Louboutin was seeing red when he responded to interview questions over his trademark infringement suit against Yves Saint Laurent. [Fox News]
* Remember that Nutella class action suit? Ferrero settled, and you can cash in if you bought their delicious hazelnut crack during the relevant time period. Needless to say, they owe me $20. [American Thinker]
* Richard Bellman, the lawyer behind New Jersey’s “Mount Laurel doctrine,” RIP. [New York Times]
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Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Dissolution, Holland & Knight, Lateral Moves, Magic Circle, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Pepper Hamilton
Dewey Have More Partner Departures To Report? Sadly, Yes
Who are the latest partners to leave Dewey & LeBoeuf, and where are they going? -
Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Citigroup, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Dissolution, JPMorgan Chase, Law Firm Mergers, Money, Partner Issues
Dewey Have Good News To Report? Quite Possibly
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Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Crime, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Dissolution, Partner Issues, Summer Associates
We Don't Have Any Summer Associates, Dewey?(And additional info about a possible criminal probe.)
What's going on with Dewey & LeBoeuf's summer associate program? And what's the deal with that possible criminal investigation? -
Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Dissolution, Howrey LLP, Lateral Moves, Law Firm Mergers, Law Firm Names, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues
Dewey Have Any Updates? Some Say Silence Is 'Deafening'
Aside from a report that some partners want criminal charges brought against chairman Steven H. Davis, as noted in Morning Docket, things have been relatively quiet on the Dewey front over the past day or two. Perhaps too quiet, for some people…. -
Biglaw, Crime, Dewey & LeBoeuf, John Edwards, Morning Docket, Partner Issues, Religion, Sex, Sex Scandals, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns, Trials, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Morning Docket: 04.27.12
* Dewey get to see a member of this firm’s chairman’s office strut for a perp walk in the near future? After all, partners reportedly say that it’s thanks to him that D&L may close up shop “as early as next week.” [Law360 (sub. req.)]
* De-equitize this: Oh, how Biglaw firms in America wish that they could return to merry old England, where mandatory retirement policies for old fart partners are the norm, and the courts agree. [Legal Week]
* “We’re about to beat a dead horse here.” Even the judge presiding over the John Edwards trial got pissed when the defense repeatedly asked variations of the same question on cross-examination. [MSNBC]
* Ain’t no shame in his game (well, actually, there is). Judge Wade McCree’s lawyer says he’s sure the judge is sorry for his sext messaging. Yeah, sorry he got caught. [Detroit Free Press]
* Is this the first test of the “ministerial exception” in the Perich case? A teacher at a Catholic school was fired for getting in vitro fertilization treatments, and now she’s suing. [CNN]
* Insert your own UVA joke here, bro. Yeardley Love’s family has filed a $30M wrongful death suit against former college lacrosse player, George Huguely V. [Washington Examiner]
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Airplanes / Aviation, Biglaw, Death Penalty, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Drugs, Food, Morning Docket, Nude Dancing, Wal-Mart
Morning Docket: 04.26.12
* Dewey need to take a look at the Biglaw industry in general before more firms implode? Hell yes, says an author who’s written on the economics and management of law firms. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Wal-Mart was served with its first shareholder suit over its alleged bribery scandal, because the only thing on rollback this week is the price of the company’s stock shares. [Reuters]
* Does diplomatic immunity give you a free pass for getting handsy with the maid? Guess we’ll see next week, when a judge rules on DSK’s motion to dismiss his civil suit. [New York Daily News]
* As long as you’ve got money, the TSA will totally look the other way if you’ve got suitcases filled with drugs. Vibrators, on the other hand, are simply out of the question. [Bloomberg]
* As of yesterday, Connecticut became the seventeenth state to kill the death penalty. But not so fast, death row inmates. You still get to die. Isn’t that nice? [CNN]
* Franchise agreements be damned, because even judges can understand that sometimes, you just need to eat a delicious sandwich while you’re getting a lap dance. [KTVN]
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Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Dissolution, Howrey LLP, Lateral Moves, Lawyerly Lairs, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Real Estate, Silicon Valley, Weirdness
Lawyerly Lairs: Dewey Have An Exorcist In The House?(Plus more potential partner departures.)
Are Dewey's offices in Silicon Valley... haunted? No, seriously....
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Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Citigroup, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Dissolution, JPMorgan Chase, Lateral Moves, Law Firm Mergers, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Tax Law
Dewey Have A Shot Of Working Out A Rescue Plan -- Before The Loans Come Due?
When are Dewey's debts due? And can the firm figure out a rescue plan before that date? -
Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Dissolution, Paralegals, Partner Issues, Secretaries / Administrative Assistants, Staff Layoffs
Dewey & LeBoeuf: A Paralegal's Lament
If Dewey goes under, staffers will also lose their jobs. Here is one paralegal’s perspective on what’s going on at D&L…. -
Allen & Overy, Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Lateral Moves, Law Firm Mergers, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Summer Associates
Dewey Have A Suitor? Plus Another Confirmed Partner Defection, and Discussion of Deferrals
Which rival Biglaw firm might be a Dewey suitor? Who's the latest partner to leave Dewey? And what about summer associates and incoming associates? -
Bail, Biglaw, Blackberry-Crackberry, Cellphones, Copyright, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Divorce Train Wrecks, Google / Search Engines, Intellectual Property, Job Searches, John Edwards, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Politics, Real Estate, Technology, Trials
Morning Docket: 04.23.12
* No dowry, no problem: Dewey we have a suitor for this imploding Biglaw firm? Rumor has it that Greenberg Traurig was seen whispering sweet nothings into D&L’s ear about its possible interest. [Am Law Daily]
* BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has hired Milbank Tweed to work out a restructuring plan. Just think, maybe if your product didn’t suck so hard, you wouldn’t be in this position in the first place. [Reuters]
* Sex, money, and betrayal… it sounds like another failed TV series about lawyers on ABC, but in actuality, it’s just a preview of the John Edwards campaign finance trial set to begin this week. [Los Angeles Times]
* Technophobes beware, because this copyright battle over code is getting serious. Oracle v. Google turned into Larry v. Larry in court last week as the CEOs for both companies gave testimony. [Bits / New York Times]
* George Zimmerman thought he’d have to stay in jail longer because he was having trouble coming up with his bail money, but he was released in the dead of night. Bet he looked pretty suspicious. [CNN]
* “There are [fewer students] coming in and crying. I haven’t had a crier yet, which I have had in the past.” Given the legal hiring market, that’s a real accomplishment for a career services official. [Charlotte Observer]
* Who gives a sh*t? Not this Russian fertilizer tycoon. When you’re a billionaire, buying an $88M apartment for your kid is just a run-of-the-mill transaction. Come on, he’s not hiding his assets for his divorce. [Telegraph]
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Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Dissolution, Lateral Moves, Law Firm Mergers, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Tax Law
Dewey Have Enough Money To Use FedEx?(Plus more potential defections, and bankruptcy planning.)
Is it true that FedEx is banned at Dewey? Which D&L partners might be heading for the door next? And what's all this talk about bankruptcy protection? -
Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Dissolution, Lateral Moves, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Tax Law
Dewey Have Room For Incoming Associates? Or Overseas Offices?
What is Dewey going to do with incoming associates from the class of 2012? And will it hold on to its foreign offices? -
Biglaw, Citigroup, Dewey & LeBoeuf, JPMorgan Chase, King & Spalding, Lateral Moves, Money, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Peter Lattman
Moscow and the Middle East: Dewey Have A Problem?(Plus more about Dewey's loan covenants.)
Dewey might be closing some of its foreign offices. Which overseas outposts are on the chopping block? And which rival firms might pick up the pieces?