It’s Beginning To Smell A Lot Like Subpoenas

Biglaw firms that struck pro bono payola deals with the Trump administration woke up last week to the prospect of two legislative chambers run by Democrats with a lot of questions about those deals. The same ranking members that firms have more or less blown off for...

Why We Call The Old-Line Firms ‘White Shoe’

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Every lawyer knows what a “white-shoe firm” is — an old-line, prestigious, tradition-bound, Wall Street firm. But the label is literal: it comes from an actual piece of footwear. What shoe gave the...