A week before three former Dewey & LeBoeuf leaders were charged with engineering a massive fraud that helped destroy the firm, litigator Geoffrey Coll underscored the human toll of the collapse caused by their alleged actions by filing for Chapter 7 protection.
Coll, a former white-collar litigation partner at Dewey who is now of counsel with Schiff Hardin in Washington, D.C., filed for bankruptcy on Feb. 27 in suburban Greenbelt, Md. In doing so, he became the second known former Dewey partner to declare himself insolvent in the wake of the firm’s failure. Gregory Owens, now a banking partner with White & Case, filed for bankruptcy two months ago in New York.
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