A fraud suit launched in California state court by former Dewey & LeBoeuf partner Henry Bunsow against several former leaders of the defunct law firm is headed to New York, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Bunsow’s suit has been the subject of a jurisdictional battle since soon after he filed it on June 13, claiming that former Dewey chairman Steven Davis and others affiliated with the firm wooed new partners using a Ponzi-like scheme that portrayed Dewey as fiscally stronger than it actually was. Bunsows suit also names as defendants former Dewey partner and litigation head Jeffrey Kessler, former executive committee member James Woods, former chief financial officer Joel Sanders, and former executive director Stephen DiCarmine.
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