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Title: Skadden: Power, Money, and the Rise of a Legal Empire by Lincoln Caplan ISBN: 0-374-52424-6 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: November, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Doodle Joe
Comment: There's usually something important to be learned by the absent minded habits of the great and powerful. This book includes one about Joe Flom: He likes to fill the margins of his notes with tightly wound, intricate geometric patters that are uniquely his own design. The author doesn't read much more into it, but there's no reason we readers can't. According the author, Mr. Flom can also be a little brusque in private.
For law students in particular, this book is a good dose of reality if they are wondering what it's really like to work in a big firm. Interesting critique of the usefulness of this book: I recently asked a Skadden associate (not in their NY office) how he liked this book, and he had not read it. He had to look it up on the firm's website to determine what I was talking about. So this book can help the non-Skadden population understand the Skadden firm perhaps better than the firm understands itself. That would be the ultimate tribute to the author, and a Delphic oracle to Skadden's leadership.
Since reading this, I cannot help thinking of Joe Flom whenever I'm trapped in some boring meeting, or sidelined in court, waiting for my case to be called. "Can I doodle as well as him?" I ask myself. Then the case is called, or the meeting accelerates, and--poof!--the evanescent reminder of old Joe Flom disappears along with it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lincoln Caplan is a phenomenal legal historian.
Comment: Mr. Caplan has gracefully provided readers with an exquisite portrait of the life and times of a twentieth century law firm. Compelling and balanced, the book joyfully tracks the highs and lows of a group of "young turks" who have defined what it means to be a lawyer in corporate America. I am grateful to Mr. Caplan for the time he put into this project, as it gives tremendous insight to law students as to how a law firm operates and what the culture of a law firm embodies. This book is worth reading, worth printing and well worth recommending. Caplan's Tenth Justice, his recording of the Office of Solicitor General is brilliant as well. Joe Flom and Sheila Birnbaum and the rest of the Skadden crew can rest easy as the bard who records their triumphs and tribulations does so with zest and intelligence.
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Title: Double Billing: A Young Lawyer's Tale Of Greed, Sex, Lies, And The Pursuit Of A Swivel Chair by Cameron Stracher ISBN: 0688172229 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 03 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Partners: Inside America's Most Powerful Law Firms by James B. Stewart ISBN: 0671420232 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 January, 1983 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Barbarians at the Gate : The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough, John Helyar ISBN: 0060536357 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Proceed With Caution: A Diary of the First Year at One of America's Largest, Most Prestigious Law Firms by William R. Keates ISBN: 0159001811 Publisher: Harcourt Brace Legal and Professional Publica Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Handbook of Law Firm Mismanagement: From the Offices of Fairweather, Winters & Sommers by Arnold B. Kanter, Paul Hoffman ISBN: 0945774125 Publisher: Catbird Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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