[T]he insatiable greed of some of those [equity] partners and the decision of some partners to jump ship when the going got rough were major causes of D&L’s collapse, not Steve DiCarmine’s actions.
— Attorney Austin V. Campriello of Bryan Cave, arguing on behalf of Stephen DiCarmine, Dewey & LeBoeuf’s former executive director, in a memorandum in support of his client’s motion to dismiss the indictment.
(Keep reading to see DiCarmine’s entertaining memorandum in full.)

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Stephen DiCarmine: Memorandum in Support of Motion to Dismiss Indictment
Dewey Defendants Slam Partners’ ‘Voracious Greed’ [New York Law Journal]