In a bombshell lawsuit filed Tuesday in California state court, former Dewey & LeBoeuf partner Henry Bunsow is accusing multiple Dewey leadersincluding longtime chairman Steven Davisof committing fraud by lying about the true state of the now-bankrupt firm’s finances.
The 14-page lawsuit [PDF], filed in San Francisco Superior Court, claims that Davis and other former 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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