Emails entered into evidence during the criminal trial of three former Dewey & LeBoeuf executives reveal that there was infighting and a struggle for power among members of the executive committee at legacy firm LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae in the months leading up to the firm’s ill-fated merger with Dewey Ballantine in 2007.
The emails were shown to the jury during the testimony Tuesday of John Schwolsky, a corporate and insurance partner who was a member of LeBoeuf Lamb’s executive committee. The exchanges make it clear that Schwolsky and fellow executive committee member and insurance expert Alexander Dye were livid because they felt they were not consulted before a March 2007 executive committee meeting when former chairman Steven Davis was re-elected chairman of the firm.
