Gordon Caplan Set to Become the Next Member of the Big Law Felons Club. Now What?
The former Willkie chair certainly is not the first Big Law partner to find himself on the wrong side of the law, but this is not your average, stole-from-an-IOLTA-account, bad lawyer story.
April 08, 2019 at 11:51 AM
8 minute read
“Every part of him was cool and wet moving swiftly through the water, nothing, nothing in his way.”
That's a quote from the yearbook page of ex-Willkie Farr & Gallagher co-chairman Gordon Caplan, who graduated from Trinity, an elite private school in Manhattan, in 1984. It turns out I know several of his classmates, who shared the yearbook.
I have reservations about mining high school yearbooks a la Brett Kavanaugh for insight into a man 35 years later. But this particular quote—a standalone sentence on his page that's attributed to “G.R.C”—Caplan's initials— is so striking in its imagery. His exact reference is unclear, but it suggests a slippery, stealthy person racing ahead without obstacles.
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