Lions in the Street

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

Lions in the Street

Front cover
Author	Paul Hoffman
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Law
Publisher	Saturday Review Press
Publication date	1973
Media type	Hardcover
Pages	274
ISBN	0-8415-0235-8
OCLC	645209
Dewey Decimal	338.7/6134/0097471 19
LC Class	KF297 .H6

Overview

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.[2]

The name of the book might be inspired by Celebration of the Lizard, a performance piece written in 1970 by Jim Morrison, frontman of The Doors.

Contents

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

• 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

1. "Lions in the Street: The Inside Story of the Great Wall Street Law Firms". goodreads.com. Retrieved 2014-12-20.
2. The New York Times: NONFICTION IN BRIEF

External links

• www.worldcat.org
• ANTIQBOOK