"As Dewey Ballantine proceeds with plans to close its Hong Kong office by the end of the month, bitter feelings have surfaced over how the firm reached its decision to shutter the seven-lawyer office and the racially insensitive way the firm parodied that decision at a firmwide annual dinner," according to the New York Law Journal. UPDATE: The firm has issued a formal apology over the racist parody to all its attorneys and staff, according to this.