Word: cravath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Westmoreland's case is being handled by Dan Burt of the Capital Legal Foundation, which finances its activities through donations from major conservative foundations. CBS is being represented by David Boies, a partner in the prestigious New York City law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Both sides have spent more than $5 million preparing for the trial. Together they have examined more than 200,000 pages of Government documents, reviewed more than 50,000 pages of CBS's notes and files, and deposed more than 50 witnesses (Westmoreland's testimony encompasses 2,000 pages, and Reporter Mike...
...some 5,500 pages of testimony had been gathered, and more than a dozen other companies wound up filing spin-off antitrust actions of their own against IBM, producing 66 million more pages of documents. Concedes Thomas Barr, a senior partner in the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which managed IBM's defense and trained a whole generation of young antitrust lawyers in the process: "We made a lot of money on this case...
Among the most popular for this age of anxiety is protection from financial and physical danger. For financial security, many firms provide expensive investment counseling to help executives find tax shelters. At the Manhattan law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, one partner spends his entire time investing and sheltering his colleagues' earnings...
...Wall Street after graduation. These are fit objects for satire, but not when the satirists are the villains themselves--then the humor is only a device to distance these people from their own guilt. It is offensive to hear somebody yuk it up about working for Cravath, Swaine and then go interview with them the next day. Yukking it up about corporate fascism makes it a lot easier to live with yourself when you become a part...