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Dewey and LeBouf filed for bankruptcy Monday night at the Manhattan Federal Bankruptcy Court, marking the largest law firm collapse in the history of the United States.

Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that, effective May 1, 2012, Carter G. Phillips will become the Co-Chair of the Firm’s Executive Committee, the Committee of the Firm that exercises general authority over its policies and affairs. Thomas A. Cole, who is in his 15th year as Chair of the Executive Committee and who turns 65 in 2013, will continue as Co-Chair for a one-year transitional period.

Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Mark D. Hopson, a member of the firm’s Management and Executive Committees, will assume the role of Managing Partner of the firm’s 275 lawyer Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Hopson succeeds Carter G. Phillips, who previously served in that role, who is becoming the Co-Chair of Sidley’s Executive Committee, effective May 1, 2012.