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

Examines how and why such powerhouse Wall Street law firms as Cravath, Swaine and Moore, Davis Polk and Wardwell, and Sullivan and Cromwell grew from nineteenth-century entrepreneurial origins into icons of institutional law practice. Also how they promoted the values of an East Coast elite, and how they adapted to the radically changed legal world. 16 pages of photos.