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| biggest law firm in the world: Masters of the Game Kim Eisler, 2010-06-15 Veteran legal issues reporter Kim Eisler takes us behind the scenes into mega law firm Williams & Connolly, guiding us on a journey through the many storied cases that have served to shape current policies in public and private sector alike For the past twenty years, author and journalist Kim Eisler has covered the law firm of Williams & Connolly, first at American Lawyer Magazine, then for Legal Times and since 1993 as National Editor of Washingtonian Magazine. More than any other writer, Kim has unprecedented and unusual contacts and relationships with the partners, as well as a background knowledge and familiarity with the firm's history and personnel over the past two decades. In Masters of the Game, Eisler sets out to demonstrate how the disciples of Edward Bennett Williams went beyond anyone's expectations and came to occupy key roles in American culture and business. In the last ten years of his life, Williams, the founder of Williams and Connolly, often said he was building not just a law firm but a monument. Masters of the Game is not only about a law firm, but about how the philosophy and practices of this particular law firm have spread out beyond Washington to dominate business, finance, sports and the American psyche itself through its influence with past, present and future political, corporate and media figures. |
| biggest law firm in the world: Tournament of Lawyers Marc Galanter, Thomas Palay, 1991-04-09 Tournament of Lawyers traces in detail the rise of one hundred of the nation's top firms in order to diagnose the health of the business of American law. Galanter and Palay demonstrate that much of the large firm's organizational success stems from its ability to blend the talents of experienced partners with those of energetic junior lawyers driven by a powerful incentive—the race to win the promotion-to-partner tournament. This calmly reasoned study reveals, however, that the very causes of the spiraling growth of the large law firm may lead to its undoing. Galanter and Palay pose questions and offer some answers which are certain to change the way big firm practice is regarded. To describe their work as challenging is something of an understatement: they at times delight, stimulate, frustrate and even depress the reader, but they never disappoint. Tournament of Lawyers is essential to the understanding of the business of the big law firms.—Jean and Colin Fergus, New York Law Journal |
| biggest law firm in the world: Big Law Ron Liebman, 2017 As a young partner at Dunn & Sullivan, one of New York's most prestigious law firms, Carney Blake has represented dozens of high-profile clients. But being a pawn of Big Law often means defending the corporate dirt bags of the world--the spillers, the drillers, and the killers. Morality aside, Carney is starting to make a name for himself ... So when Carney is suddenly asked by his firm's chairman to represent the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit--and not, as usual, the corporate bad guys--he warily accepts. Maybe they're turning a corner, he thinks-- |
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| biggest law firm in the world: Surviving and Succeeding in Large Law Firms Paul McCoy, 2021-07-15 Practicing law in a law firm is challenging, to say the least. A law degree and the technical skills taught by law firms are only small parts of what you need to survive and succeed in a law firm. Most of what you need to know will take you decades of experience to learn through trial and error. As a result, new lawyers find themselves slogging through life as a firm associate unsure whether or not their efforts are really getting them anywhere in the long run. This state of perpetual uncertainty, pushing slowly forward into a black void, leaves many very unhappy with their work life and, as a consequence, their overall life suffers. There is an easier way. Imagine knowing that the steps you are taking are in fact leading to success. Imagine having a mentor who has already worked his way up the learning curve, already learned through trial and error what works and what doesn't work, who could share with you techniques and insights that could substantially increase your chances of surviving and succeeding at a law firm. Imagine if such mentor was always immediately available to you at your request. Well, this book was written precisely to be a virtual mentor for the multitudes of lawyers struggling to survive and succeed in law firms.This book is a must read for any law student considering a career at a law firm. This book is also an invaluable asset for any associate at a law firm struggling to survive and succeed. Give yourself an edge and learn from a lawyer who not only survived but succeeded in the world of prestigious, global law firms. |
| biggest law firm in the world: COMPASS LAW FIRM RANKINGS Alexander Gendlin, 2016-03-30 Law firm rankings have established themselves around the world as the means for evaluating law firms and lawyers. Chambers and Partners alone covers over 190 countries. This book will provide answers to the most important questions when dealing with rankings: • How can law firms determine, which ranking is to be taken seriously and furthermore is suitable for the law firms' purpose (e. g. small law firms must not work with the exact same rankings as large law fi rms) • What should law firms and all members of the legal profession do to effectively communicate their performance to the ranking publications in order to improve their own rankings? • How can the law firms' clients distinguish between important and less relevant rankings? This book for the first time offers an overview of the law firm ranking industry and gives recommendations as to why which rankings are suitable for which law firms and legal fields. Case studies and practice notes are also provided for working properly with rankings. |
| biggest law firm in the world: Best Practices in Law Firm Business Development and Marketing Deborah Brightman Farone, 2019 Best Practices in Law Firm Business Development and Marketing is a unique resource for law firm leaders, practicing attorneys, legal marketers, consultants, and educators who want to uncover the best marketing practices in the legal profession. Find out how the most successful law firm leaders are creating and developing firm cultures to encourage business development, and how smaller firms and single practitioners are executing on marketing plans to make an impact.This book uncovers the best practices in the wide arena of legal marketing and covers topics including: the most successful ways to create long-term relationships with clientshow personalities, leadership, and collaboration contribute to a firm's culture and brandwhat characteristics management should look for when hiring a CMOhow compensation, firm culture, training, and coaching can support and incentivize business developmentsteps to take to build an individual reputation and brand, including the use of press, speaking engagements, and social mediathe essential approach to support women lawyers with business development -- including ideas on networking, mentorship versus sponsorship, and authenticity in marketing how new technologies are being applied to deliver better service, attract clients, and generate businessthe important role of legal operations, the procurement professional, and legal process outsourcingpractical methods for evaluating AI solutions to business needs such as billing, e-discovery, and technology-assisted reviewCulled from scores of interviews with law firm leaders, chief marketing officers, and legal innovation visionaries, Best Practices provides actionable advice and real-world thinking. Each chapter is filled with information that can be scaled to apply to a single-person law practice as well as a large international law firm. In addition, the book features special Think Pieces from some of the nation's leading experts in legal marketing. |
| biggest law firm in the world: Growth is Dead Bruce MacEwen (Lawyer), 2013 Now in its Second Edition Growth is Dead addresses the future of BigLaw (or SophisticatedLaw) in the wake of the great financial reset of 2008 and its continuing repercussions including: (a) relentless pricing pressures; (b) excess capacity; (c) partner expectations; and (d) the accelerating entry of new legal service provider organizations, with all their implications for career paths, the traditional leveraged staffing model of law firms, and much more. Brad Karp, Chair of the Firm at Paul Weiss, describes it thus: I read all 12 installments of your series with great interest...twice. This is an extraordinary body of work that reflects enormous insight and ought be required reading by managing partners of law firms and professional services organizations. You do a very effective job of challenging the status quo and your series is a much-needed wake up call for our profession. As always, I plan to share many of your insights with my partners. And I plan to cogitate over many of your proposed initiatives. 2012 Year in Review: Must-Read. Any review of 2012 must begin with Bruce MacEwen's 12-part Growth is Dead series, which looks at, and analyzes, the monumental effects of the Great Recession on the legal industry. Immediately became required reading for law firm leaders, by the one and only Bruce MacEwen. - Bloomberg Law When it comes to the economics of the legal industry, there's Bruce MacEwen and then there's everyone else. |
| biggest law firm in the world: The Client-Centered Law Firm Jack Newton, 2020-01-28 The legal industry has long been risk averse, but when it comes to adapting to the experience-driven world created by companies like Netflix, Uber, and Airbnb, adherence to the old status quo could be the death knell for today's law firms. In The Client-Centered Law Firm, Clio cofounder Jack Newton offers a clear-eyed and timely look at how providing a client-centered experience and running an efficient, profitable law firm aren't opposing ideas. With this approach, they drive each other. Covering the what, why, and how of running a client-centered practice, with examples from law firms leading this revolution as well as practical strategies for implementation, The Client-Centered Law Firm is a rallying call to unlock the enormous latent demand in the legal market by providing client-centered experiences, improving internal processes, and raising the bottom line. |
| biggest law firm in the world: Ending the Gauntlet Lauren Stiller Rikleen, 2006 |
| biggest law firm in the world: Managing the Modern Law Firm Laura Empson, 2010-06-10 The last ten years have been a period of extraordinary change for law firms. The rapid growth of corporate law firms and the emergence of global mega-firms have strained the traditional partnership model of management. Some managers of law firms are appalled at the creeping 'corporatism' that they fear may result. However a growing number believe that it is time to move on and adopt more contemporary forms of structure and management. In Managing the Modern Law Firm scholars and legal practitioners examine the latest insights from management research, to enable law firms successfully to meet the challenges of this new business environment. |
| biggest law firm in the world: Legal Ethics Geoffrey C. Hazard, Angelo Dondi, 2004 Examining legal ethics within the framework of modern practice, this book identifies two important ethical issues that all lawyers confront: the difference between the role of lawyers and the role of judges in pursuing justice, and the conflicting responsibilities lawyers have to their clients and to the legal system more broadly. In addressing these issues, Legal Ethics provides an explanation of the duties and dilemmas common to practicing lawyers in modern legal systems throughout the world. The authors focus their analysis on lawyers in independent practice in modern capitalist constitutional regimes, including the United States, Japan, Europe, and Latin America, as well as the emerging legal systems in China and the former Soviet bloc, to develop connections between the legal profession and political systems based on the rule of law. They find that although ethical tension is inherent in the legal practice of all these societies, the legal profession is essential to stable political institutions. |
| biggest law firm in the world: I Take You Eliza Kennedy, 2015-05-05 Meet Lily Wilder: New Yorker, lawyer extraordinaire, blushing bride. And totally incapable of being faithful to one man. Lily’s fiancé Will is a brilliant, handsome archaeologist. Lily is sassy, impulsive, fond of a good drink (or five) and has no business getting married. Lily likes Will, but does she love him? Will loves Lily, but does he know her? As the wedding approaches, Lily’s nights—and mornings, and afternoons—of booze, laughter and questionable decisions become a growing reminder that the happiest day of her life might turn out to be her worst mistake yet. Unapologetically sexy with the ribald humor of Bridesmaids, this joyously provocative debut introduces a self-assured protagonist you won’t soon forget. |
| biggest law firm in the world: Model Rules of Professional Conduct American Bar Association. House of Delegates, Center for Professional Responsibility (American Bar Association), 2007 The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts. |
| biggest law firm in the world: John P. Kotter on what Leaders Really Do John P. Kotter, 1999 Widely acknowledged as the world's foremost authority on leadership, the author provides a collection of his acclaimed Harvard Business Review articles. |
| biggest law firm in the world: The Litigators John Grisham, 2011-10-25 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • After leaving a fast-track legal career and going on a serious bender, David Zinc is sober, unemployed, and desperate enough to take a job at Finley & Figg, a self-described “boutique law firm” that is anything but. Oscar Finley and Wally Figg are in fact just two ambulance chasers who bicker like an old married couple. But now the firm is ready to tackle a case that could make the partners rich—without requiring them to actually practice much law. A class action suit has been brought against Varrick Labs, a pharmaceutical giant with annual sales of $25 billion, alleging that Krayoxx, its most popular drug, causes heart attacks. Wally smells money. All Finley & Figg has to do is find a handful of Krayoxx users to join the suit. It almost seems too good to be true ... and it is. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM! |
| biggest law firm in the world: The Lawyer Bubble Steven J Harper, 2016-03-08 A noble profession is facing its defining moment. From law schools to the prestigious firms that represent the pinnacle of a legal career, a crisis is unfolding. News headlines tell part of the story—the growing oversupply of new lawyers, widespread career dissatisfaction, and spectacular implosions of pre-eminent law firms. Yet eager hordes of bright young people continue to step over each other as they seek jobs with high rates of depression, life-consuming hours, and little assurance of financial stability. The Great Recession has only worsened these trends, but correction is possible and, now, imperative. In The Lawyer Bubble, Steven J. Harper reveals how a culture of short-term thinking has blinded some of the nation’s finest minds to the long-run implications of their actions. Law school deans have ceded independent judgment to flawed U.S. News & World Report rankings criteria in the quest to maximize immediate results. Senior partners in the nation’s large law firms have focused on current profits to enhance American Lawyer rankings and individual wealth at great cost to their institutions. Yet, wiser decisions—being honest about the legal job market, revisiting the financial incentives currently driving bad behavior, eliminating the billable hour model, and more—can take the profession to a better place. A devastating indictment of the greed, shortsightedness, and dishonesty that now permeate the legal profession, this insider account is essential reading for anyone who wants to know how things went so wrong and how the profession can right itself once again. |
| biggest law firm in the world: Vault Guide to the Top Washington DC Law Firms , 2007-05-15 There is no more exciting place to be as an attorney than the nation's capital. The Guide is focused entirely on major law firms with large offices in Washington, DC and covers more than 40 firms. Based on surveys and interviews of attorneys at each firm. Thousands of lawyers provide in-depth coverage of prestige, compensation, perks, corporate culture, and other legal lifestyle issues. |
| biggest law firm in the world: Vault Guide to the Top New York Law Firms Brian Dalton, 2007-05-15 New York is the center of the legal universe for what is known as BIG law. Vault, the authority on legal employment and publisher of the definitive Guide to the Top 100 Firms, brings lawyers and law students inside information on firm culture and compensation at more than 50 firms with major offices in the Big Apple. Based on interviews and surveys of actual attorneys at each firm. Based on surveys of thousands of lawyers, it provides in-depth coverage of prestige, compensation, perks, corporate culture, and other legal lifestyle issues. |
| biggest law firm in the world: Declining Prospects Michael H. Trotter, 2012 Tells the story of continued growth and change in the legal services industry in the United States over the last two decades and how these changes are affecting the major business practice law firms, their clients, their clients' law departments, and all of the lawyers serving the legal needs of business in America. The equity partners of the major firms have become extraordinarily well compensated, but the financial prospects of many of the firms and their lawyers are declining as corporate law departments have become the dominant force in the corporate legal world. The book picks up where Trotter's previous book, Profit and the Practice of Law, left off. The two books together provide a comprehensive view of the evolution of the legal services industry in America since the end of World War II--P. [4] of cover. |
| biggest law firm in the world: The Partner Track Helen Wan, 2013-09-17 An “engaging and suspenseful” novel of a first-generation Chinese American having second thoughts about her elite Manhattan law firm (The Wall Street Journal). Ingrid Yung’s life is full of firsts. A first-generation Chinese American, the first lawyer in her family, she’s about to collect the holy grail of firsts and become the first minority woman to make partner at the venerable old Wall Street law firm Parsons Valentine & Hunt. Ingrid has perfected the art of “passing” and seamlessly blends into the old-boy corporate culture. She gamely banters in the cafeteria, plays in the firm softball league, and earnestly racks up her billable hours. But when an offensive incident at the summer outing threatens the firm’s reputation, Ingrid’s outsider status is suddenly thrown into sharp relief. Scrambling to do damage control, Parsons Valentine announces a new diversity and inclusion initiative, commanding Ingrid to spearhead the effort—just as she’s about to close an enormous transaction that was to be her final step in securing partnership. For the first time, Ingrid begins to question her place in the firm. Pitted against her colleagues, including her golden-boy boyfriend, Ingrid wonders whether the prestige of partnership is worth breaching her ethics. But can she risk throwing away the American dream that’s finally within her reach? “Thought-provoking . . . [a] compelling tale.” —Booklist “Funny, fragile, sometimes bold, often unsure, Ingrid Yung is one of those unforgettable heroines that you actually miss, like a dear friend, when the story’s over.’“—Ann Leary, New York Times–bestselling author of The Foundling “Intriguing and entertaining.” —Library Journal |
| biggest law firm in the world: Anonymous Lawyer Jeremy Blachman, 2007-04-17 A “side-achingly funny” debut novel about a high-powered lawyer whose candid blog about life inside his firm threatens to destroy him (Publishers Weekly). He’s a hiring partner at one of the world’s largest law firms. Brilliant yet ruthless, he has little patience for associates who leave the office before midnight or steal candy from the bowl on his secretary’s desk. He hates holidays and paralegals. And he’s just started a weblog to tell the world about what life is really like at the top of his profession. Meet Anonymous Lawyer. The summer’s about to start, and he’s got a new crop of interns. But he’s also got a few things bothering him: The Jerk, his bitter rival at the firm, who is determined to do whatever it takes to beat him out for the chairman’s job. Anonymous Wife is spending his money as fast as he can make it. And there’s that secret blog he’s writing, which is a perverse bit of fun until he gets an e-mail from someone inside the firm who knows he’s its author. Written in the form of a blog, Anonymous Lawyer is a spectacularly entertaining debut that rips away the bland façade of corporate law and offers a telling glimpse inside a frightening world . . . |
| biggest law firm in the world: Supreme Ambitions David Lat, 2015 Supreme Ambitions details the rise of Audrey Coyne, a recent Yale Law School graduate who dreams of clerking for the U.S. Supreme Court someday. Audrey moves to California to clerk for Judge Christina Wong Stinson, a highly regarded appeals-court judge who is Audrey's ticket to a Supreme Court clerkship. While working for the powerful and driven Judge Stinson, Audrey discovers that high ambitions come with a high price. Toss in some headline-making cases, a little romance, and a pesky judicial gossip blog, and you have a legal novel with the inside scoop you'd expect from the founder of Above the Law, one of the nation's most widely read and influential legal websites. |
| biggest law firm in the world: Vault Guide to the Top Law Firms for General Commercial Litigation Nicole S. Esq., 2013 The 2014 Edition of the Vault Guide to the Top Law Firms for General Commercial Litigation, part of the Vault Law 100 Series, highlights the strongest firms in this practice area as determined by associates at peer firms. |
| biggest law firm in the world: Mistrial Mark Geragos, Pat Harris, 2013-04-11 A searing and entertaining manifesto on the ills of the criminal justice system from two of America’s most prominent defense attorneys. From the rise of the Internet and the 24-hour news cycle to the television ratings bonanza of the O.J. Simpson trial, a perfect storm of media coverage has given the public an unprecedented look inside the courtroom, kicking off popular courtroom shows and TV legal commentary that further illuminate how the criminal justice system operates. Or has it? In Mistrial, Mark Geragos and Pat Harris debunk the myths of judges as Solomon-like figures, jurors as impartial arbiters of the truth, and prosecutors as super-ethical heroes. Mistrial draws the curtain on the court’s ugly realities—from stealth jurors who secretly swing for a conviction, to cops who regularly lie on the witness stand, to defense attorneys terrified of going to trial. Ultimately, the authors question whether a justice system model drawn up two centuries ago before blogs and television is still viable today. In the aftermath of recent high-profile cases, the flaws in America’s justice system are more glaring than ever. Geragos and Harris are legal experts and prominent criminal defense attorneys who have worked on everything from celebrity media-circuses—having represented clients like Michael Jackson, Winona Ryder, Scott Peterson, Chris Brown, Susan MacDougal, and Gary Condit—to equally compelling cases defending individuals desperate to avoid the spotlight. Shining unprecedented light on what really goes on in the courtroom, Mistrial is an enjoyable, fun look at a system that rarely lets you see behind the scenes. |
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| biggest law firm in the world: American Law in the Twentieth Century Lawrence Meir Friedman, 2004-01-01 American law in the twentieth century describes the explosion of law over the past century into almost every aspect of American life. Since 1900 the center of legal gravity in the United States has shifted from the state to the federal government, with the creation of agencies and programs ranging from Social Security to the Securities Exchange Commission to the Food and Drug Administration. Major demographic changes have spurred legal developments in such areas as family law and immigration law. Dramatic advances in technology have placed new demands on the legal system in fields ranging from automobile regulation to intellectual property. Throughout the book, Friedman focuses on the social context of American law. He explores the extent to which transformations in the legal order have resulted from the social upheavals of the twentieth century--including two world wars, the Great Depression, the civil rights movement, and the sexual revolution. Friedman also discusses the international context of American law: what has the American legal system drawn from other countries? And in an age of global dominance, what impact has the American legal system had abroad? This engrossing book chronicles a century of revolutionary change within a legal system that has come to affect us all. |
| biggest law firm in the world: Remaking Law Firms George Beaton, Imme Kaschner, 2016-06-07 This book provides examples of innovative and successful business models from remade law firms to inspire change that goes beyond thinking and planning, and leads straight to implementing change and better client service. |
| biggest law firm in the world: A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara, 2016-01-26 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise. |
| biggest law firm in the world: Vault Guide to the Top Law Firms for Real Estate Law Nicole S. Weber, Vault (Firm), 2013 Features a ranking of the top law firms for real estate law and includes detailed profiles of each of the law firms ranked in this practice area, as well as candid reviews from current employees. |
| biggest law firm in the world: The Game Changing Attorney Michael Mogill, 2018-10-18 These days, even if you're an outstanding lawyer, you're getting lost in the shuffle. The legal landscape is saturated with over 1.3 million attorneys. In The Game Changing Attorney, marketing expert Michael Mogill teaches actionable strategies to help you break through the noise, gain your ideal client's attention, and land the best cases. |
| biggest law firm in the world: BigLaw Mitt Regan, Lisa H. Rohrer, 2021-01-12 The Great Recession intensified large law firms’ emphasis on financial performance, leading to claims that lawyers in these firms were now guided by business rather than professional values. Based on interviews with more than 250 partners in large firms, Mitt Regan and Lisa H. Rohrer suggest that the reality is much more complex. It is true that large firm hiring, promotion, compensation, and termination policies are more influenced by business considerations than ever before and that firms actively recruit profitable partners from other firms to replace those they regard as unproductive. At the same time, law firm partners continue to seek the non-financial rewards of being members of a distinct profession and are sensitive to whether their firms are committed to providing them. Regan and Rohrer argue that modern firms responding effectively to business demands while credibly affirming the importance of non-financial professional values can create strong cultures that enhance their ability to weather the storms of the modern legal market. |
| biggest law firm in the world: The Associate John Grisham, 2009 With an unforgettable cast of characters and villains and featuring all the twists and turns that have made Grisham the most popular storyteller in the world, The Associate is vintage Grisham at his best. |
| biggest law firm in the world: American Lawyers Los Angeles Richard L. Abel Professor of Law University of California, 1989-11-30 This detailed portrait of American lawyers traces their efforts to professionalize during the last 100 years by erecting barriers to control the quality and quantity of entrants. Abel describes the rise and fall of restrictive practices that dampened competition among lawyers and with outsiders. He shows how lawyers simultaneously sought to increase access to justice while stimulating demand for services, and their efforts to regulate themselves while forestalling external control. Data on income and status illuminate the success of these efforts. Charting the dramatic transformation of the profession over the last two decades, Abel documents the growing number and importance of lawyers employed outside private practice (in business and government, as judges and teachers) and the displacement of corporate clients they serve. Noting the complexity of matching ever more diverse entrants with more stratified roles, he depicts the mechanism that law schools and employers have created to allocate graduates to jobs and socialize them within their new environments. Abel concludes with critical reflections on possible and desirable futures for the legal profession. |
| biggest law firm in the world: White Shoe John Oller, 2019-03-19 The fascinating true story of how a group of visionary attorneys helped make American business synonymous with Big Business, and Wall Street the center of the financial world “Entertaining.”—The Wall Street Journal • “Fast-paced history.”—Library Journal • “Insightful and revealing.—Kirkus • “Captivating.”—BookPage The legal profession once operated on a smaller scale—folksy lawyers arguing for fairness and justice before a judge and jury. But by the year 1900, a new type of lawyer was born, one who understood business as well as the law. Working hand in glove with their clients, over the next two decades these New York City “white shoe” lawyers devised and implemented legal strategies that would drive the business world throughout the twentieth century. These lawyers were architects of the monopolistic new corporations so despised by many, and acted as guardians who helped the kings of industry fend off government overreaching. Yet they also quietly steered their robber baron clients away from a “public be damned” attitude toward more enlightened corporate behavior during a period of progressive, turbulent change in America. Author John Oller, himself a former Wall Street lawyer, gives us a richly-written glimpse of turn-of-the-century New York, from the grandeur of private mansions and elegant hotels and the city’s early skyscrapers and transportation systems, to the depths of its deplorable tenement housing conditions. Some of the biggest names of the era are featured, including business titans J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, lawyer-statesmen Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes, and presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. Among the colorful, high-powered lawyers vividly portrayed, White Shoe focuses on three: Paul Cravath, who guided his client George Westinghouse in his war against Thomas Edison and launched a new model of law firm management—the “Cravath system”; Frank Stetson, the “attorney general” for financier J. P. Morgan who fiercely defended against government lawsuits to break up Morgan’s business empires; and William Nelson Cromwell, the lawyer “who taught the robber barons how to rob,” and was best known for his instrumental role in creating the Panama Canal. In White Shoe, the story of this small but influential band of Wall Street lawyers who created Big Business is fully told for the first time. |
| biggest law firm in the world: Attorney and Law Firm Guide to the Business of Law Edward Poll, 2002 Shows lawyers how to manage their practices in a more business-like manner. It explains how to determine both personal and law firm goals. |
| biggest law firm in the world: Total Justice Lawrence M. Friedman, 1985-08-14 It is a widely held belief today that there are too many lawsuits, too many lawyers, too much law. As readers of this engaging and provocative essay will discover, the evidence for a litigation explosion is actually quite ambiguous. But the American legal profession has become extremely large, and it seems clear that the scope and reach of legal process have indeed increased greatly. How can we best understand these changes? Lawrence Friedman focuses on transformations in American legal culture—that is, people's beliefs and expectations with regard to law. In the early nineteenth century, people were accustomed to facing sudden disasters (disease, accidents, joblessness) without the protection of social and private insurance. The uncertainty of life and the unavailability of compensation for loss were mirrored in a culture of low legal expectations. Medical, technical, and social developments during our own century have created a very different set of expectations about life, again reflected in our legal culture. Friedman argues that we are moving toward a general expectation of total justice, of recompense for all injuries and losses that are not the victim's fault. And the expansion of legal rights and protections in turn creates fresh expectations, a cycle of demand and response. This timely and important book articulates clearly, and in nontechnical language, the recent changes that many have sensed in the American legal system but that few have discussed in so powerful and sensible a way. Total Justice is the third of five special volumes commissioned by the Russell Sage Foundation to mark its seventy-fifth anniversary. |
| biggest law firm in the world: Vault Guide to the Top Chicago and Midwest Law Firms Vera Djordjevich, 2007-03-15 Welcome to the new, expanded edition of the Vault Guide to the Top Chicago & Midwest Law Firms. We've invited associates at the region's top law firms to tell us about their jobs, offer suggestions to prospective associates an. |
| biggest law firm in the world: Vault Guide to the Top Southern California Law Firms, 2007 Edition Brian Dalton, 2006-05-16 For the first time, Vault offers a guide focused entirely on major law firms with large offices in Southern California. Covering more than 55 firms in the major legal markets of Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange County, this Vault Guide is the only insider's guide to law firms in sunny Southern California. Based on interviews and surveys of attorneys at each firm, it provides in-depth coverage of prestige, compensation, perks, corporate culture, and other legal lifestyle issues. |
| biggest law firm in the world: Arbitration’s Age of Enlightenment? Cavinder Bull, Loretta Malintoppi, Constantine Partasides, 2023-09-12 Directly presenting the considered views of a broad cross-section of the international arbitration community, this timely collection of essays addresses the criticism of the arbitral process that has been voiced in recent years, interpreting the challenge as an invitation to enlightenment. The volume records the entire proceedings of the twenty-fifth Congress of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), held in Edinburgh in September 2022. Topics range from the impact of artificial intelligence to the role of international arbitration in restraining resort to unilateralism, protectionism, and nationalism. The contributors tackle such contentious issues as the following: time and cost; gender and cultural diversity; confidentiality vs. transparency; investor-State dispute settlement procedures; the proposed establishment of a permanent international investment court system; how cross-fertilisation across different disciplines may impact international arbitration; determining whether a document request seeks documents that are relevant and material to the outcome of a dispute; whether we would be better off if investment arbitration were to disappear; and implications for international arbitration of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. There is consideration of global issues that are likely to give rise to disputes in the future, including climate change, environmental protection, access to depleting water resources, energy and mining transition, and human rights initiatives. Several contributions focus on developments in specific countries (China, India) and regions (Africa, the Middle East). Arbitrators, corporate counsel, and policymakers will appreciate this opportunity to engage with current thinking on key issues in international commercial and investment arbitration, especially given the diversity of thought presented by authors from all over the world. |
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PROD - Version: 3.7.0 9/30/2024, 1:18:42 PM. All Content © 2025 BiggestBook. All Rights Reserved.
Biggestbook Web
VISION ELITE BLX Series Hybrid Gel Pen, Stick, Bold 0.8 mm, Assorted Ink and Barrel Colors, 5/Pack
Biggestbook Web
Anti-Viral Facial Tissue, 3-Ply, White, 55 Sheets/Box, 27 Boxes/Carton
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