Dewey & LeBoeuf’s bankruptcy estate wants to make good on promises it says were made to three employees from the once-thriving firm’s finance department who have stayed on to help wind down Dewey’s operations.
In a filing made last week, Dewey’s chief restructuring officer Joff Mitchell argues that director of finance Frank Canellas, director of billing Lourdes Rodriguez, and collections manager Lisa Sucoff all deserve bonuses to be drawn from the Chapter 11 estate’s coffers. Mitchell says in court papers that the three, as well as other nonattorney staff, routinely received bonuses when the firm was alive—often in amounts that were more than half of what each earned in annual base salary.
