Winning Dewey Attorneys Dish on Why the Second Trial Was Tougher (New York Law Journal)
New York Law Journal, May 11, 2017
Winning Dewey Attorneys Dish on Why the Second Trial Was Tougher
“Fresh off her win for her client Stephen DiCarmine in the second take of the Dewey & LeBoeuf trial, Rita Glavin said the second go-around was the real battle. ‘It was a tougher trial the second time around, for a number of reasons,’ in part, because ‘a lot of the good stuff’ was gone, such as errors by prosecutors, she told a room of a few hundred gathered at a New York City Bar Association annual white-collar conference. Glavin, a partner at Seward & Kissel, was joined on the panel by Elkan Abramowitz, whose client, former chairman Steven Davis, was offered a deferred prosecution agreement after the jury in the first trial deadlocked on many of the counts. ‘There were many mistakes that they made the first time that we were able to take advantage of that weren’t around for the second trial,’ said Abramowitz, a name partner at Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello.”
