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Reducing headcount
New York-based Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has snapped up former Dewey partners Catherine Hood and Anthony Terrell, while Minneapolis firm Dorsey & Whitney has grabbed litigator William Primps for its New York office to complete the latest batch of defections.
Regarding the partner losses, Dewey told the Am Law Daily: ‘The number who have left to date, including firm initiated reductions, is consistent with the reduced headcount contemplated by our plan, which contemplates limited further headcount reduction over the next several months.’
Credit line
Dewey is currently renegotiating an existing $100 million line of credit with its lender after setting up a five-person ‘office of the chairman’ in an attempt to instil confidence in the struggling partnership.
In a long expose on the firm’s plight published in the current issue of The Lawyer newspaper, the view is promulgated that the discord has its roots in the hasty merger five years ago between then Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae. ‘The partners from the LeBoeuf side of the combined firm are the ones leaving in their droves,’ says the report.
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