Dewey & LeBoeuf’s bankruptcy filing has shed some light into the inner workings of that once-august institution and provided fodder for reams of commentary. Most of the commentary falls under the heading of “What Went Wrong.”
I saw something else in that filing. In the list of Dewey’s “top 20 unsecured creditors” that accompanied the firm’s first-day bankruptcy filing was tangible proof of the central importance of library services to the existence of law firms, and just how substantial firms’ economic relationships with their vendors of legal research products are.
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