The Anointed
New York's White Shoe Law Firms-How They Started, How They Grew, and How They Ran the Country
This is the story of how and why such powerhouse Wall Street law firms as Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Davis Polk & Wardwell, and Sullivan & Cromwell, grew from nineteenth-century entrepreneurial origins into icons of institutional law practice; how, as white-shoe bastions with the social standards of an exclusive gentlemen's club, they promoted the values of an east coast elite; and how they adapted to a radically changed legal world, surviving snobbish insularity and ferocious competition to remain at the pinnacle of a transformed profession. It is no accident these firms are found in New York, the largest city in the world's larges…
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Weitere Autoren: Stewart, Geoffrey S.
- ISBN: 978-1-4930-5634-7
- EAN: 9781493056347
- Produktnummer: 36158894
- Verlag: Lyons Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 24 Illustrations including: - 24 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
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By Jeremiah Lambert and Geoffrey S. Stewart
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