Former Dewey & LeBoeuf leaders will be tried again on criminal charges, prosecutor says
Steven Davis arrives in handcuffs for the arraignment at Manhattan Criminal Court in March 2014. Photo by Reuters Carlo Allegri from the February 2015 ABA Journal.
A trial victory in a Manhattan criminal case earlier this year may not be the end of the road for three former Dewey & LeBoeuf leaders accused of cooking the books at the BigLaw firm before it imploded in 2012.
Following two partial verdicts in which Steven Davis, Joel Sanders and Stephen DiCarmine were acquitted on some of the charges and a mistrial when the jury deadlocked on the remaining charges, the government says it plans to try the men again, reports the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.).
In a Friday hearing concerning a separate criminal case faced by another onetime Dewey employee, Zachary Warren, assistant Manhattan district attorney Peirce Moser said the office will retry the case against Dewey’s former leaders. He didn’t specify whether the charges would be the same as those on which the jury couldn’t reach a verdict, or whether any of the defendants would be dropped, the newspaper article says.
Davis, who served as Dewey’s chairman; Sanders, its chief financial officer; DiCarmine, its executive director; and Warren, a client relations manager at the firm before he went to law school, all maintain their innocence.
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ABAJournal.com: “Jurors and others unconvinced Dewey & LeBoeuf management was a crime”
ABAJournal.com: “Dewey prosecution could have been handled better, DA says”
ABA Journal: “How Dewey management’s rosy picture masked an ugly truth”
