I don’t want to cook the books anymore. We need to stop doing that.”
— Joel Sanders, former Dewey & LeBoeuf chief financial officer, in a Dec. 4, 2008, email.

Query: Was it the changing business model or something deeper that brought down Dewey & LeBoeuf? And what can a company’s in-house legal department learn from the firm’s demise to better inform selection of outside counsel?

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