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So are white-shoe, Old Economy outfits like consulting firm McKinsey, Deutsche Bank, and Hughes Aircraft.
First, it began to race after rich clients with the acquisition of white-shoe wealth manager U.S. Trust, for $3.2 billion in 2000.
He got his start at G.H. Walker & Co., the white-shoe bank run by President George H.W. Bush's uncle.
But perhaps the worst insult, at least to the profession's traditional elite, is the suggestion that you can find white-shoe law firms in - of all places - Newark.
Unlike hot-money investors rushing in - and out - of emerging markets in search of a quick return, these white-shoe institutions say they're taking a longer-term view of Shanghai's real estate market.
The lawyers, the accountants, and the white-shoe brigade will do well.
They are trying to join the New Economy, outsourcing work to subcontractors and bringing in white-shoe consultants like McKinsey.
Your desk reveals more about your personality than you might think, even if you work in a white-shoe law firm that frowns on personal expression.
Suddenly bars began to drop: in formerly restricted neighborhoods, in previously elite country and city clubs, in once white-shoe bank, law, and investment firms.
Symbols of the excesses of the white-shoe brigade may be kitsch and amusing, but are indicative of a society where development was pursued for the good of a few.
It has been long known as a patrician, white-shoe firm with an air so understated and secretive that at least one former exec likened it to working at the CIA.
Tensions inside the firm mounted as some of the firm's white-shoe bankers worried that CEO Purcell would grasp at any deal.
Perhaps his biggest coup was to obtain the ostensibly pro bono services of the white-shoe law firm Simpson Thacher and Bartlett.
As close to a white-shoe firm as you get down the Jersey shore - because even criminals needs real estate attorneys.
He says that an ‘international white-shoe corporate brigade’, based in Queensland, want to start up food irradiation again.
A few years back he went to Boston's venerable white-shoe law firm, Palmer and Dodge.
The modern definition of white-shoe is more difficult to pin down.
In my youth, the conventional wisdom was that he was a white-shoe number-cruncher who couldn't admit he had made a mistake.
His father and grandfather, investment bankers at old white-shoe firms, both had high reputations, but erosion soon set in.
Of course, every booming economy has not only its white-shoe financiers but also its lowly offshore workers.