Lions in the Street

Book by Paul Hoffman

Lions in the Street

Front cover

Author| Paul Hoffman
Language| English
Subject| Law
Publisher| Saturday Review Press

Publication date

| 1973
Publication place| United States
Media type| Hardcover
Pages| 274
ISBN| 0-8415-0235-8
OCLC| 645209

Dewey Decimal

| 338.7/6134/0097471 19
LC Class| KF297 .H6

Lions in the Street: The Inside Story of the Great Wall Street Law Firms is a 1973 book by Paul Hoffman.[1]

## Overview

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The book describes the great Wall Street law firms of the 1970s, prominent cases, traditions and a community of high-profile lawyers. Some famous names discussed: Cravath, Swaine & Moore; Davis Polk & Wardwell; Lord Day & Lord; Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine; Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton; Carter, Ledyard & Milburn; Coudert Brothers; Covington & Burling, and others.

## Contents

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1. The Congress of Vienna Sits on the Fifty-seventh Floor
2. Downtown, Midtown, All Around the World
3. The $100-an-hour Toll Collectors
4. Some Partners are more Equal than Others
5. The Care and Feeding of Corporate Clients—I
6. The Care and Feeding of Corporate Clients—II
7. "As my Lawyer, Dick Nixon, said the Other Day..."
8. The Workers Are the Means of Production
9. A Lot Goes on Behind Closed Doors
10. The Green-goods Councel as the Big Board's Cop
11. The Public Servant as Private Lawyer
12. The Private Lawyer as Public Servant
13. The Greetings of the Bar Association
14. On Different Wavelengths

## Official information

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* Hoffman, Paul (1973). Lions in the Street: The Inside Story of the Great Wall Street Law Firms. New York: Saturday Review Press. ISBN 0-841-50235-8.

## References

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1. ^ "Lions in the Street: The Inside Story of the Great Wall Street Law Firms". goodreads.com. Retrieved 2014-12-20.

*[OCLC]: Online Computer Library Center number
*[LC Class]: Library of Congress Classification