Former Dewey & LeBoeuf partner Henry Bunsow is accusing multiple Dewey leaders, including longtime chairman Steven Davis, of committing fraud by lying about the true state of the now-bankrupt firm’s finances.
In a suit filed June 14 in San Francisco Superior Court, Bunsow, a patent litigator who joined Dewey in January 2011 from Howrey as that firm began its own downward spiral, claims that Davis and other ex-Dewey leaders engaged in a years-long pattern of deceit aimed at portraying the firm as stronger fiscally than it actually was in order to pursue a lateral hiring spree that the complaint likens to “running a Ponzi scheme.”
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