The Anointed: New York's White Shoe Law Firms-How They Started, How They Grew, and How They Ran the Country

by Jeremiah Lambert and Geoffrey Stewart

Book Overview

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, 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493056336
• ISBN13: 9781493056330
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"