The men accused of cooking the books at defunct law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP were back in court this week as their lawyers argued that charges against them be dismissed, Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review reported today. Once a 1,300-lawyer global firm, Dewey & LeBoeuf collapsed in 2012, leaving creditors on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars in the largest law firm failure in history. At a hearing on Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court, defense attorneys for three former Dewey leaders told Justice Robert Stolz there was no evidence that their clients had intended to engage in accounting trickery or to "permanently" deprive Dewey's lenders and bondholders of their property. They asked the judge to release minutes from the grand jury, and said that the court should dismiss some of the charges if the evidence does not show larcenous intent on the part of former Dewey chairman Steven Davis, former executive director Stephen DiCarmine and the firm's former chief financial officer, Joel Sanders.
