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...Rose, Guthrie and Alexander. Golden's history of Mudge Rose throws light on recent developments between four players in the Superlawyers' world Nixon, Mudge Rose, Pepsico, Inc., and the FTC. After his 1962 defeat in California, Nixon joined Mudge Rose and represented Pepsico on the East Coast and internationally. Goulden discloses that at that time Pepsico offered Nixon a substantial annual retainer (thought to be close to $120,000 a year) to soften up foreign leaders who often make it tough on multinational corporations. When Nixon moved to the White House, Mudge Rose followed close behind, expanding its Washington operation...
...Washington's top law firms obtain such power and influence? Most develop a small class of Superlawyers, mostly Ivy educated, whose professions range between tax legislation, regulatory standards, international treaties, and Ford Motor Corporation litigations. They become, Goulden writes, "the interface that holds together the economic partnership of business and government...
True to form, the Fortas Brigade succeeded In Goulden's words, the "lawyers helped write testimony, and they marched through the hearings and they stayed close around executive sessions to make sure dissidents didn't tamper with the script." Conclusion: the Superlawyers shaped the cigarette law and extracted every once of benefit from...
Though the focus of his book is on Washington's Kingpin private lawyers. Goulden does not ignore the rising number of Washington Lawyers dedicated to the public interest. According to his interviews, most Superlawyers despise these unorthodox crusaders. For the new breed of consumer oriented lawyers thrives on exposing the secret deals Superlawyers earn thousands on. Ralph Nader and his confederates show little respect for those Washington Lawyers who bargain their way into positions of power and reap huge financial windfalls for their corporate clients. The new lawyers ask: what is the lawyer's responsibility to society, as opposed...
...Goulden concludes that the lawyer's highest responsibility lies with society, not with the corporations. He warns the Superlawyers that their secretive world no longer remains secure. They must begin answering to the public for the policies which originate from their offices. Seeing himself as a crusader in exposing the Superlawyers. Goulden views the traditional Washington Lawyer running scared: "...he is feeling the same sting of 'responsibility' as are corporate executives; he is learning to live with the awareness that his self-prescribed privacy no longer insulates him from the rest of the world...