On a Tuesday evening in late September, Patrick Boyle, a partner in Venable’s litigation group, organized a casual dinner for about 50 partners hailing from New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut and as far away as California. They continued onto Emmett O’Lunney’s Irish Pub in Manhattan’s theater district to meet up with about 75 more attorneys and legal staff.
The event wasn’t to celebrate a holiday or a retirement or a big win in a case. It was to commemorate the 2008 collapse of Thacher Proffitt & Wood, where Boyle spent 11 years—and the end of the firm’s dissolution process.
