Irony is one of our most overused words, but come on …

News has come from back east that the law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf is filing for bankruptcy.

Besides the little detail that this is the largest law firm to go under in U.S. history, there is this one other notable fact:

The law firm going bankrupt is the same law firm that handled Frank McCourt’s bankruptcy of the Dodgers.

In its filing, Dewey lists liabilities “in the range” of $100 million to $500 million; if that’s the best estimate it can come up with, it’s no wonder these guys got into financial trouble.

Hey, I know a guy flush with $1 billion who might be able to give Dewey a loan. You could argue he even owes them.

According to court records, McCourt has incurred more than $20 million in “bankruptcy-related expenses.” Bills are still coming in. That’s not all from Dewey, certainly, but it’s still a lot of attorney fees. And Dewey was discounting its bill.

Dewey is not...

It’s a news and notes kinda Tuesday …

-- Jerry Sands was the one to go with Matt Kemp being activated. He was optioned back to triple-A Albuquerque.

Sands was the system’s minor league player of the year in 2010, but has struggled to take the next step. He went four for 20 during this call-up, with a pair of doubles.

The Dodgers kept Scott Van Slyke, the minor league player of the year in 2011, who was called up before Sands. Van Slyke had a memorable game-winning homer, but is hitting just .136 (three for 22).

-- Kemp was excited to return from the 15-day disabled list: “I woke up this morning and it felt like opening day.”

Kemp knows that now that his consecutive games-played streak is over (at 399), Manager Don Mattingly plans to give him an occasional day off.

“Since the streak is over, I guess he’s planning on giving me a couple days off here and there,” Kemp said. “But he’s going to have to fight me to get me out of the...

Matt Kemp walked into the Dodgers’ clubhouse late after their 3-2 loss to the Brewers on Monday, and Andre Ethier greeted him with:

“We got some reinforcements!”

Ah, yes, the return of Kemp. Good news for the Dodgers, certainly. Exciting news, really.

Not that it doesn’t come with one little caveat.

The Dodgers cannot afford to relax with the return of Kemp. Cannot let their guard down, figure all will be better now and loosen the reins.

They have to use his coming off the disabled list as a spark, not a moment to exhale. Have to keep the pressure on, the intensity ratcheted.

Kemp can lead, but not be asked to take over.

“It’s not probably something I’ll really talk about, but I think we have to get contributions,” said Manager Don Mattingly. “We still don’t know how Matt’s going to come back.

“We can’t expect Matt to come back and everything is good. He has to do his part, everybody else needs to keep doing their...

Meanwhile, back at Langley — whoops, sorry, I meant at Dodger Stadium — the Dodgers announced that Ted Lilly was going on the 15-day disabled list with shoulder inflammation and that they had called up reliever Mike Antonini from triple-A Albuquerque.

Which is not to say Antonini will take Lilly’s scheduled start on Tuesday; he will not. Stay tuned for  Tuesday’s move — shhh, still unannounced — when the Dodgers will call up right-hander Nathan Eovaldi from double-A Chattanooga to start Tuesday.

“I don’t really have one right now,” said Manager Don Mattingly about a starter for Tuesday.

Of course, he said this on Monday. You know, the day before he’ll need one.

 “I don’t know if I should really be talking about tomorrow’s starter since he’s not in the building,” Mattingly said.

OK, there’s that. So Antonini is up as long-man relief in case Aaron Harang goes belly-up early Monday against the...

Security at Dodger Stadium remains an evolving operation.

The Dodgers said they will replace their new head of security, Rich Wemmer, on Tuesday with another former Los Angeles Police Department honcho, Michael Hillman.

Dodgers President Stan Kasten said Wemmer was retiring and the new ownership knew that coming in. Wemmer was only hired in April 2011 following the security controversy borne of the parking lot beating of Bryan Stow on opening day last spring.

Wemmer, 64, will have served as the stadium’s senior director of security for only 14 months.

“He waited for the [ownership] changeover,” Kasten said. “And we knew that coming in.”

Hillman is actually a year older than Wemmer and comes to his new position with a reputation as an intense hard-liner, who ran into trouble during his recent two-year stint at the Orange County Sheriff's Department as the assistant sheriff. He was laid off from that position in 2010 after previously serving for 42 years with the...

Second baseman Mark Ellis, his left leg fully attached, dropped by the Dodgers clubhouse Sunday for the first time since having emergency surgery May 19.

“It feels good, just being able to move around,” Ellis said. “It’s getting a lot better.”

Ellis spent five days in the hospital following surgery to release severe swelling on his lower left leg that was in danger of killing the muscle. Manager Don Mattingly said Dr. Neal ElAttrache believed that Ellis was within hours of possibly losing the leg.

“I was told that I was getting surgery. Nobody ever mentioned that to me,” Ellis said. “I knew it was a serious thing that had to be taken care of. I’m glad that I was in good hands.”

Ellis’ leg was injured when the Cardinals’ Tyler Greene slid in hard, but cleanly, at second to break up a double play.

Ellis might not be done with the operating room, however. He also suffered some meniscus damage to his knee on the play, and...