When four former Dewey & LeBoeuf insiders were charged earlier this month with engineering a massive fraud that helped kill the storied firm, Dennis D’Alessandro was neither one of the defendants nor among the seven unnamed people who have already pleaded guilty in the matter. According to his lawyer, however, he may yet offer his take on Dewey’s demise in court.

Bruce Barket, of Garden City, N.Y.–based Barket Marion Epstein & Kearon, says that D’Alessandro, a fellow Long Islander who served as Dewey’s longtime chief operating officer, approached him more than a year ago as he sought legal representation amid the fallout from the largest law firm collapse in U.S. history.

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