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Robert D. Joffe ’64, a prominent attorney and former head of Cravath, Swaine & Moore law firm, died Thursday from pancreatic cancer. He was 66 years...
Joffe joined Cravath in 1967, but a few months into his time as an associate, he went to work in Malawi’s Ministry of Justice. There he spent two years helping rewrite the country’s laws and procedures for local courts...
...returned to Cravath in 1969, became a partner in 1975, and was elected deputy presiding partner in November 1997. He was elected presiding partner in 1999, a position he held until...
Although he began his career as a lawyer at the prestigious firm of Cravath, Swain & Moore, Wasserstein eventually went into banking. When he joined the investment bank First Boston, he helped build the firm into one of the most prominent mergers and acquisitions establishments of the 1980s, according to media reports...
...politics and economics at Oxford and then earned law and business degrees from Harvard. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall--who, unable to pronounce his name, dubbed him "Obeedoogee." (Most friends and colleagues today call him Bayo.) Ogunlesi joined the top-shelf New York City law firm Cravath, Swain & Moore, where he jumped at the chance to advise First Boston on a Nigerian gas project. Success in that effort landed him a better job at First Boston (which was acquired by Credit Suisse in 1997). For First Boston he worked in project finance, brokering deals in which lenders...