The team of former Dewey bankruptcy lawyers who represented the Los Angeles Dodgers in the team's $2 billion sale appear to be using the sale as leverage in a potential settlement with the firm’s estate, which has asked them to help collect fees from the case, the Wall Street Journal reported today. According to a stipulation filed late last week in federal court, the four ex-partners–Bruce Bennett, Sidney P. Levinson, James O. Johnston and Joshua M. Mester–are pursuing damage claims for “fraud, misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duty and other claims” against Dewey & LeBoeuf, members of the firm’s executive committee and “certain other persons.” All four had special pay deals with the firm that, according to the filing, date back to 2011.
