In this unprecedented look at the culture of American lawyering, Lincoln Caplan shows us Skadden\'s origins in the white-shoe postwar Legal world and its Rise to preeminence in the era of Drexel Burnham Lambert - the firm\'s largest client in the eighties.
In Caplan\'s probing and even-handed account, the story of Joe Flom\'s firm illuminates an era in America b.
Skadden is revealed as a place that prizes opportunists but which also created a $10 million program to support public-interest lawyers.
In this unprecedented look at the culture of American lawyering, Lincoln Caplan shows us Skadden\'s origins in the white-shoe postwar Legal world and its Rise to preeminence in the era of Drexel Burnham Lambert - the firm\'s largest client in the eighties
