It’s not often we get invited to law firm events that involve honest-to-goodness famous people. Around here, a phonecall from former attorney general Michael Mukasey is usually as close as we get to a brush with celebrity. So when Dewey & LeBoeuf forwarded an invite to a “conversation with director and filmmaker, Spike Lee,” there was no chance we were going to pass it up.
Dewey’s diversity committee invited Lee to speak as a part of the firm’s annual celebration of Black History Month. An appearance by the Do The Right Thing director can cost upwards of $25,000 (£17,000) under ordinary circumstances. Lucky for Dewey, the firm is home to one of Lee’s go-to lawyers, partner L. Londell McMillan, who says he “had a few favours in the bank” with Lee.
