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The anointed : New York's white-shoe law firms : how they started, how they grew, and how they ran the country
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"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 ...
"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"--
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- Creator
- Jeremiah D. Lambert and Geoffrey S. Stewart
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- English
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- Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2021]
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- vi, 229 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1493056336, 9781493056330, 9781493056347, 9781493056347
- OCLC
- on1149336891
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The Past Remembered -- An Ancient Rivalry -- "Morgan's Attorney General" -- Railroads & Railroad Reorganizations -- Age of Trusts & The Progressive Era -- William Nelson Cromwell & The Panama Canal -- Sullivan & Cromwell, National & International -- The Cravath System and Cravath the Man -- Early Cravath Alumni -- Robert Swaine and Cravath's Reorganization Practice -- he 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 -- Change Comes to Davis Polk -- Back to the Future