After Dewey Collapse, Former Partners Still Search for Homes

UPDATED: This story has been corrected to reflect that about 10 percent of former Dewey partners have switched law firms twice since departing.

Hogan Lovells is set to announce on Wednesday that it has hired Joseph Tato, the onetime chair of Dewey & LeBoeuf’s global project and infrastructure practice, Big Law Business has learned.

Tato joins from DLA Piper , a firm he joined in 2012 – just two weeks before Dewey’s bankruptcy. At that time, Dewey was teetering on the brink of collapse, and its lawyers were forced to call headhunters, who placed hundreds of lawyers at various firms, all ...