 Front cover | |
| Author | Paul Hoffman |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Law |
| Publisher | Saturday Review Press |
Publication date | 1973 |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 274 |
| ISBN | 0-8415-0235-8 |
| OCLC | 645209 |
| 338.7/6134/0097471 19 | |
| LC Class | KF297 .H6 |
Lions in the Street: The Inside Story of the Great Wall Street Law Firms is a 1973 book by Paul Hoffman.[1]
Overview
The book describes the great Wall Street law firms of the 1970s, prominent cases, traditions and a community of high-profile lawyers. Some famous names discussed: Cravath, Swaine & Moore; Davis Polk & Wardwell; Lord Day & Lord; Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine; Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton; Carter, Ledyard & Milburn; Coudert Brothers; Covington & Burling, and others.
Contents
- The Congress of Vienna Sits on the Fifty-seventh Floor
- Downtown, Midtown, All Around the World
- The $100-an-hour Toll Collectors
- Some Partners are more Equal than Others
- The Care and Feeding of Corporate Clients—I
- The Care and Feeding of Corporate Clients—II
- "As my Lawyer, Dick Nixon, said the Other Day..."
- The Workers Are the Means of Production
- A Lot Goes on Behind Closed Doors
- The Green-goods Councel as the Big Board's Cop
- The Public Servant as Private Lawyer
- The Private Lawyer as Public Servant
- The Greetings of the Bar Association
- On Different Wavelengths
Official information
- Hoffman, Paul (1973). Lions in the Street: The Inside Story of the Great Wall Street Law Firms. New York: Saturday Review Press. ISBN 0-841-50235-8.
References
- ↑ "Lions in the Street: The Inside Story of the Great Wall Street Law Firms". goodreads.com. Retrieved 2014-12-20.
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