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Sargeant is the managing partner of Ropes and Gray, one of Boston's oldest and most prestigious law firms. Another Ropes and Gray partner, Francis H. Burr '31, helped set the policies which ran Harvard for 28 years, until he resigned from the University's governing Corporation in 1982. A former partner in the firm, James Vorenberg '49, now supervises Sargeant's seminar as dean of the Law School...
Sargeant and Burr say these multiple connections between their firm and their alma mater are purely coincidental, but the two institutions' histories have long been intertwined. Like Sargeant, John Chipman Gray, a member of Harvard's Class of 1859 and one of the firm's founders, simultaneously handled Harvard's account at the firm and lectured at the Law School a century ago. Burr is the third in a string of lawyers which provided Ropes and Gray with virtually uninterrupted representation on the Corporation from 1905 to Burr's resignation, and Gray's co-founder John Codman Ropes, Class...
...surprising advocate of large in-house legal operations is Burr, who earns his living representing corporate clients. He not only favors a strong internal legal office at Harvard but says he had recommended that his clients do the same. Burr agrees with Kolb's claim that inside counsel often "solve problems before they get big." In his experience, he says, in-house legal offices have generally only proved inefficient when poor lawyers have run them...
...chapter in the firm's relationship with Harvard may have ended when Burr resigned from the Corporation and was replaced by Colman M. Mockler Jr. '52, the chief executive officer of Gillette (a Ropes and Gray client whose account Burr helps handle). During his years on the governing board. Burr says he avoided personally handling any legal work for the University, citing an old lawyer's adage. "An attorney who represents himself has a fool for a client...
...stern, heterosexual authority of the Judaeo-Christian patriarchy. See Julian, his 1964 novel about the apostate nephew of Constantino the Great. The second area that draws Vidal's scorn is American politics, which he dramatizes as a circus of opportunism and hypocrisy. See The Best Man; Washington, D.C.; Burr. The most freewheeling disdain is directed at popular culture, macho sexuality and social pretensions. See Myra Breckinridge; Myron...