To many, perhaps most, observers of today’s legal scene, a “white shoe” law firm is nothing more than a large, prominent firm serving a primarily corporate clientele.
But those who entered the profession before the 1980s can remember a time when the term explicitly did not apply to many firms. Back then, there were the white-shoe firms and there were the Jewish firms, and the former worked to keep it that way.
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