The Anointed
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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 Anointed

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

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Lyons Press
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781493056347
Topic
History
Subtopic
Business Law
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. 1 The Past Remembered
  3. 2 An Ancient Rivalry
  4. 3 “Morgan’s Attorney General”
  5. 4 Railroads and Railroad Reorganizations
  6. 5 The Age of Trusts and The Progressive Era
  7. 6 William Nelson Cromwell and The Panama Canal
  8. 7 Sullivan & Cromwell: An International Law Firm
  9. 8 The Cravath System and Cravath the Man
  10. 9 Early Cravath Alumni
  11. 10 Robert Swaine and Cravath’s Reorganization Practice
  12. 11 The Creation of Davis Polk & Wardwell
  13. 12 John W. Davis’ Law Firm
  14. 13 Sullivan & Cromwell and Opportunity in the Aftermath of War
  15. 14 The Advent of Regulation
  16. 15 Fighting the New Deal
  17. 16 The Dulles Brothers and the Postwar World
  18. 17 Tradition and Reform at Davis Polk
  19. 18 Back to the Future
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. About the Authors