For those of you following the Dewey & LeBoeuf criminal trial, you know that the jury deadlocked in October 2015 after nearly six months of deliberations on dozens of charges against Steven H. Davis, the former chairman of Dewey, and two other former executives of the law firm, Stephen DiCarmine and Joel Sanders. The three men were accused of being the architects of an accounting fraud that enabled Dewey to defraud its lenders and creditors during much of the financial crisis.

In January and February 2016, Manhattan Prosecutors reached deferred prosecution agreements with Steven H. Davis and Zachary Warren, one of the original defendants.

The Manhattan prosecutors retried the case against DiCarmine and Sanders, the remaining defendants, in the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan.  In May 2017, the jury delivered a split verdict.  Joel Sanders, the law firm’s former chief financial officer, was convicted on three criminal counts.  He could be sentenced up to four years in prison. Stephen DiCarmine, the former executive director, was acquitted of the same charges.

Update on the case can be found here.

For those of you following the Dewey & LeBoeuf criminal trial, you know that the jury deadlocked last October after nearly six months of deliberations on dozens of charges against Steven H. Davis, the former chairman of Dewey, and two other former executives of the law firm, Stephen DiCarmine and Joel Sanders. The three men were accused of being the architects of an accounting fraud that enabled their law firm, Dewey & Leboeuf, to defraud its lenders and creditors during much of the financial crisis.

In January and February of this year, Manhattan prosecutors reached deferred prosecution agreements with Steven H. Davis and Zachary Warren, one of the original defendants.

The Manhattan prosecutors are now planning to retry the case against DiCarmine and Sanders, the remaining defendants. The trial is expected to begin early next year in the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan – just in time for your spring semester 2017 P.R. classes. Apparently, DiCarmine has communicated that he wants to replace his longtime lawyer, Austin Campriello.

Update on the case can be found here.

 

It’s always a good idea to remind your students to be careful if they should ever take on the responsibility of managing a law firm, especially in times of financial bust. If you have been following the Dewey & LeBoeuf criminal trial, you know that the jury deadlocked in October of last year on dozens of charges against Steven H. Davis, the former chairman of Dewey, and two other former executives of the law firm, Stephen DiCarmine and Joel Sanders. The three men were accused of being the architects of an accounting fraud that enabled Dewey to defraud its lenders and creditors during much of the financial crisis.

In January of this year, Manhattan prosecutors reached a deferred prosecution agreement with Steven H. Davis. The agreement runs for five years and prohibits Davis from practicing law in New York during that period.

In February, prosecutors reached a deferred prosecution agreement with Zachary Warren, one of the four original defendants, just weeks before he was supposed to go on trial in the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan. Notably, Warren was not a lawyer when he worked as the client relations manager at Dewey & Leboeuf. After leaving Dewey, he went on to graduate from Georgetown Law Center and clerked for a federal judge.  He plans on working at Williams & Connolly in the fall.   The agreement requires Warren to perform 350 hours of community service as part of a one year agreement.

The Manhattan prosecutors are planning to retry the case against DiCarmine and Sanders.

Articles about the agreements reached with Davis and Warren can be found here and here.

Those of you who are teaching Chapter 6, Part II (Duties to Third Parties and to the Law) may want to refer to the ongoing criminal trial of three former executives of Dewey & LeBoeuf, who are being tried for larceny, fraud and falsifying business records. The trial began in late May and the defense team plans to formally rest its case on Tuesday without calling a single witness. Prosecutors working under Manhattan district attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. have called more than 40 witnesses to support the prosecution’s case. Recent update on the case can be found here. Prior blogpost can be found here.