{"id":166343,"date":"2026-10-28T14:36:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T22:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/28\/before-weil-the-biggest-collapse-in-biglaw-history-ended-in-criminal-court\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T14:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T22:36:03","slug":"before-weil-the-biggest-collapse-in-biglaw-history-ended-in-criminal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/28\/before-weil-the-biggest-collapse-in-biglaw-history-ended-in-criminal-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Weil, The Biggest Collapse In Biglaw History Ended In Criminal Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s news that <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/after-95-years-weil-gotshal-is-winding-down\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weil Gotshal is winding down<\/a> after 95 years has Biglaw reaching for comparisons \u2014 and the obvious one is Dewey &amp; LeBoeuf, whose 2012 implosion remains one of the largest law firm collapses in American history. But Dewey\u2019s downfall didn\u2019t end with a bankruptcy filing: prosecutors went on to charge three of the firm\u2019s top leaders with cooking the books to deceive its lenders and auditors. Who are the three executives who ended up as criminal defendants?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: Two of them shared a first name and were known collectively around the firm as \u201cthe Steves.\u201d The third kept the books.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/before-weil-the-biggest-collapse-in-biglaw-history-ended-in-criminal-court\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Before Weil, The Biggest Collapse In Biglaw History Ended In Criminal Court<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/05\/goodbye-farewell-lateral-partner-move-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s news that <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/after-95-years-weil-gotshal-is-winding-down\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weil Gotshal is winding down<\/a> after 95 years has Biglaw reaching for comparisons \u2014 and the obvious one is Dewey &amp; LeBoeuf, whose 2012 implosion remains one of the largest law firm collapses in American history. But Dewey\u2019s downfall didn\u2019t end with a bankruptcy filing: prosecutors went on to charge three of the firm\u2019s top leaders with cooking the books to deceive its lenders and auditors. Who are the three executives who ended up as criminal defendants?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: Two of them shared a first name and were known collectively around the firm as \u201cthe Steves.\u201d The third kept the books.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/before-weil-the-biggest-collapse-in-biglaw-history-ended-in-criminal-court\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/before-weil-the-biggest-collapse-in-biglaw-history-ended-in-criminal-court\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Today\u2019s news that Weil Gotshal is winding down after 95 years has Biglaw reaching for comparisons \u2014 and the obvious one is Dewey &amp; LeBoeuf, whose 2012 implosion remains one of the largest law firm collapses in American history. But Dewey\u2019s downfall didn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}