The anointed : New York's white-shoe law firms : how they started, how they grew, and how they ran the country / Jeremiah D. Lambert and Geoffrey S. Stewart.
Publisher:
Lyons Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
vi, 229 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-215) and index.
Contents:
The Past Remembered -- An Ancient Rivalry -- "Morgan's Attorney General" -- Railroads & Railroad Reorganizations -- Age of Trusts & The Progressive Era -- William Nelson Cromwell and The Panama Canal -- Sullivan & Cromwell : an International Law Firm -- The Cravath System and Cravath the Man -- Early Cravath Alumni -- Robert Swaine and Cravath's Reorganization Practice -- The Creation of Davis Polk & Wardwell -- John W. Davis's Law Firm -- Sullivan & Cromwell and Opportunity in the Aftermath of War -- The Advent of Regulation -- Fighting the New Deal -- The Dulles Brothers and the Postwar World -- Tradition and Reform at Davis Polk -- Back to the Future.
Summary:
"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, and how, as white-shoe bastions with the social standards of an exclusive gentleman's club, they promoted the values of an East Coast elite"-- Provided by the publisher.
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