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...Factory" lawyers fall into two broad categories: partners, who divide up the profits, and associates, who are paid salaries. With 24 partners and 47 associates, the Nixon firm barely ranks among New York City's 20 biggest. At the top in size is Shearman & Sterling, with 158 lawyers. Outside New York, firms with as many as 50 lawyers are uncommon: there are five in Philadelphia, five in Houston, four in Chicago, four in Cleveland, two in Los Angeles, one each in Washington, Boston and San Francisco...
...names sometimes suffer drastic changes, the big law offices are usually solid and durable institutions. Most of today's giants are direct descendants of firms established generations ago. Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander, for example, traces back to 1869. Relationships with clients tend to be just as durable. Shearman & Sterling has represented one New York bank for the past 67 years...
Philip H. Theopold '25, partner in Minot DeBlois and Maddison, a Boston real estate firm; Fredrick M. Eaton '27, partner in Shearman, Sterling and Wright, New York law firm; John E. Lawrence '31, partner in the Boston cotton firm James Lawrence and Co.; and Albert L. Nickerson '33, president of Socony Mobil Oil Co. have also been nominated...
Freund, a member of the New York City law firm of Shearman, Sterling and Wright since 1923, decreed that part of his bequest should be devoted to stimulating "interest in International Law, European History, and high scholarship...
Then came the crusher. Last week the grand jury not only refused to indict Ham Reid but, in an astounding bit of legal beagling, it filed slander charges against three P.A.G. members and five American Pressmen, including Ken Dixon and Publisher Shearman. The accusation: they had "defamed" three of the local gamblers as well as Sheriff Reid, the district attorney, other officials...