August 18, 2014
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP's liquidating trust on Monday won final approval of a $4.5 million settlement of a class action alleging the fallen firm laid off workers in its hectic final days without the notice required under the New York state and federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Acts.
August 13, 2014
Nine former Dewey & Leboeuf LLP partners urged a New York bankruptcy judge on Tuesday to determine that their status as limited liability partners protects them from certain aspects of the liquidating trustee’s clawback suits demanding they return compensation payments from when the firm was insolvent.
July 31, 2014
The secured lender trustee for defunct Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP launched two lawsuits Thursday seeking a combined $355,000 in allegedly unpaid attorneys' fees, one of them against a Miami-based music producer known for work with hip-hop luminaries like 50 Cent, Beyonce and Dr. Dre.
July 22, 2014
Dewey & Leboeuf LLP's former executive director and chief financial officer have settled the liquidating trustee's suit demanding the return of $22 million in compensation they allegedly took while masking the firm's precarious finances, according to court records filed Tuesday.
July 16, 2014
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP's former chief operating officer told a New York bankruptcy judge Tuesday that because he was an executive in name only and not an "insider" under U.S. bankruptcy law, the firm's liquidating trustee can't claw back $9.3 million in allegedly undeserved compensation.
July 10, 2014
Manhattan's district attorney on Wednesday asked a bankruptcy judge to halt the Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP liquidating trustee's suit against former Executive Director Stephen DiCarmine and Chief Financial Officer Joel Sanders in favor of a criminal case charging the pair with masking the defunct firm's weak finances ahead of its collapse.
June 25, 2014
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP's liquidating trust on Wednesday received preliminary approval for a $4.5 million settlement resolving a class action accusing the fallen firm of laying off employees without adequate notice under the New York state and federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification acts.
June 23, 2014
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP's former executive director and chief financial officer on Friday rebuffed claims that they are liable for millions in connection with their alleged roles in the firm's downfall, saying they are protected by an insurance settlement that a bankruptcy judge signed last year.
June 12, 2014
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP has agreed to pay $4.5 million to end a class action brought by workers who were laid off shortly before the firm's collapse in 2012, according to documents filed in New York bankruptcy court Wednesday.
June 10, 2014
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP's liquidating trustee on Monday fired off new allegations against the firm's former executive director and chief financial officer, jumping on the charges lodged in an indictment earlier this year that the pair intentionally defrauded the firm and its creditors.