New York's Main Street and Wall Street Lawyers
Author | : Keith Hunter Cox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Lawyers |
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Author | : Keith Hunter Cox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Lawyers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Keith Hunter Cox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Lawyers |
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Author | : John Oller |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2019-03-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1524743275 |
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.
Author | : Erwin Orson Smigel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Law offices |
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Author | : Paul Hoffman |
Publisher | : Scarborough, Ont. : New American Library of Canada |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Rev. ed. published as: Lions of the eighties. 1st ed. 1982. Bibliography: p. [229]-235.
Author | : Edwin J. Perkins |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1999-04-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521630290 |
A 1999 biography of Charles Merrill, the founder of the world's largest brokerage and investment firm.
Author | : Adam Leitman Bailey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Real estate law |
ISBN | : 9781579695798 |
Author | : Milton C Regan |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2010-02-22 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0472025910 |
"A wonderful character study of someone whose cognitive dissonance ('I am brilliant, therefore I must be doing everything correctly') led directly to his downfall. Students would do well to read this book before venturing forth into a large firm, a small firm, or any pressure-cooker environment." -Nancy Rapoport, University of Houston Law Center "Eat What You Kill is gripping and well written. . . . It weaves in academic commentary and understanding of professional ethics issues in a way that makes it accessible to everyone." -Frank Partnoy, University of San Diego Law School He had it all, and then he lost it. But why did he do it, risking everything-wealth, success, livelihood, freedom, and the security of family? Eat What You Kill is the story of John Gellene, a rising star and bankruptcy partner at one of Wall Street's most venerable law firms. But when Gellene became entangled in a web of conflicting corporate and legal interests involving one of his clients, he was eventually charged with making false statements, indicted, found guilty of a federal crime, and sentenced to prison. Milton C. Regan Jr. uses Gellene's case to prove that such conflicting interests are now disturbingly commonplace in the world of American corporate finance. Combining a journalist's eye with sharp psychological insight, Regan spins Gellene's story into a gripping drama of fundamental tensions in modern-day corporate practice and describes in perfect miniature the inexorable confluence of the interests of American corporations and their legal counselors. This confluence may seem natural enough, but because these law firms serve many masters-corporations, venture capitalists, shareholder groups-it has paradoxically led to deep, pervasive conflicts of interest. Eat What You Kill gives us the story of a man trapped in this labyrinth, and reveals the individual and systemic factors that contributed to Gellene's demise.
Author | : |
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Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Lawyers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard L. Abel |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Lawyers |
ISBN | : 0195072634 |
This comprehensive picture of the contemporary American legal profession traces its development over the last hundred years. Abel examines a variety of topics including the nature and effect of entry barriers, the rise and fall of restrictive practices, efforts to create demand for lawyers' services, self-regulation, the income and status of lawyers, the growth of public and private employment, the displacement of solo and small firms, and the allocation of lawyers to roles.