In the waning days of the prosecution’s case in the Dewey & LeBoeuf criminal trial, the defunct firm’s former general counsel testified Thursday that the firm’s executive committee hadn’t approved reclassifications of payments to of counsel as equity partner compensation.

The witness, Janis Meyer, was Dewey & LeBoeuf’s general counsel throughout the financial turmoil that preceded the firm’s 2012 collapse. She joined Hinshaw & Culbertson’s New York office in January as a partner advising firms and lawyers on professional responsibility, ethics and risk management.

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