In the latest blow to the reeling Dewey & LeBoeuf, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has opened an investigation into “allegations of wrongdoing by our former chairman, Steven Davis,” and the firm has tapped two of its own lawyers to lead an internal probe, according to a memo authored by Dewey management and obtained by The Am Law Daily.

The unsigned, two-paragraph memo, sent by the firm’s office of the chairman to partners worldwide late Friday, states that Dewey leaders learned of the D.A.’s investigation earlier in the day and responded by asking partners Harvey Kurzweil and Seth Farber to act as counsel to the firm as it conducts its own inquiry.

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