NEW YORK — A bankruptcy judge in New York approved $17 million in fees and expenses on June 20 for advisers working on failed law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf's Chapter 11 case.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn approved nine pending applications. The fees went to firms including Dewey counsel Togut, Segal & Segal, $8.8 million; Brown Rudnick, which advised the bankruptcy's unsecured creditors committee, $3.4 million; special benefits counsel Keightley & Ashner; $164,000; and Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, which worked for an official committee of former Dewey partners, $1.35 million.