Anointed (eBook)

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

Jeremiah Lambert, Geoffrey S. Stewart (Autoren)

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2021
256 Seiten
Lyons Press (Verlag)
978-1-4930-5634-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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 largest economy and also the nation's largest port, principal banking center, and epicenter of industry. At the dawn of the twentieth century, linked by canals, railroads, telegraph and telephone lines, transatlantic steamships and undersea cables, New York became the economic nerve center of the United States. It also wielded formidable political power and supplied every President or Vice President of the United States between the Civil War and the Great War.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.3.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 24 Illustrations including: - 24 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Algernon Sullivan • Allen Dulles • Antitrust Act • Attorney • Banking Industry • Bankruptcy • bar association • Brown v. Board • business trusts • Cravath, Swaine & Moore • Cravath System • Davis Polk & Wardwell • dulles brothers • Financial Panics • Frank Lynde Stetson • international law firms • John Fster Dulles • John W Davis • J. P. Morgan • law firm recruitment • Law History • lawyer • money trusts • panama canal • Paul Cravath • Postwar World • Progressive Era history • railroad industry • Robert Swaine • Sullivan & Cromwell • The New Deal • US law firms • Wall Street • Wall Street history • white shoe • William Nelson Cromwell
• ISBN-10: 1-4930-5634-4 / 1493056344
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4930-5634-7 / 9781493056347