Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outcome is never really in doubt, so streamlined and predictable are the characters. The women in Bud's life are there primarily as temptations. His broker and lawyer pals are either consciences or bad company. The film seems intended as a blend of morality play and classical satire -- Everyman meets Volpone. Stone always comes at you with big dreams and nightmares; he wants the first and last word on every subject he touches, whether Central America (Salvador), Viet Nam (Platoon) or Wall Street. This time he works up a salty sweat to end up nowhere, like a triathlete...
Revenues too. Those were nourished by the Reagan-era frenzy of corporate mergers that generated tens of millions in fees. A survey by the monthly American Lawyer showed 20 firms this year with gross revenues of $100 million- plus. Two years ago, just five were in that elite. The leader, 840-lawyer Skadden, Arps, had gross revenues of around $228 million. With offices in eight cities, its weekly partnership lunches require an audio hookup to link conference rooms...
...work to a single outside firm. In the 1970s, many began shifting basic chores to in-house legal staffs. When they do go outside these days, they often shop around, using firms on a deal-to-deal basis. After a 1977 U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the right of lawyers to advertise, once reticent partnerships became increasingly willing to toot their own horns. In the unaccustomed clangor of competition, the bonds of collegiality that held a firm together have withered. "If you're going to exist in this competitive environment," says Boston Attorney Richard Csaplar of the 90-lawyer Csaplar...
...unusual to receive a call offering a package of six partners from another firm with a promise of $10 million of business," says Chairman Alex Forger of Manhattan's Milbank, Tweed. Meanwhile, by publicizing balance sheets and pay scales throughout the profession, aggressive trade publications like the American Lawyer, the National Law Journal and Legal Times have awakened ambitious attorneys to the greener pastures they might enter by jumping to a rival firm. Says Jonathan Spivak, who heads a Washington legal search firm: "It's like baseball. You go where the money...
Women who have chosen younger mates point to several advantages. "Younger men take for granted the philosophy that I subscribe to. They expect a woman to pick up a check as quickly as they would," says Shelly Mandell, 45, a lawyer in Los Angeles. "It doesn't insult their manhood if we make more money than they do." Nor do young partners feel threatened by a woman's aggressiveness in the bedroom. As a result, women contend, sex is better, more inventive. Though such pairings have long been regarded as "unnatural," supporters argue that they are biologically astute. Since...