“We’ll getcha & mangle ya”

David Lat on nicknames of big law firms: “Cruel & Boring” for Crowell & Moring may be the best known, while “Huge Cupboards of Greed” (Hughes Hubbard & Reed) was new to me (Sept. 13).

David Lat on nicknames of big law firms: “Cruel & Boring” for Crowell & Moring may be the best known, while “Huge Cupboards of Greed” (Hughes Hubbard & Reed) was new to me (Sept. 13).

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  • real names
    “Slaughter & Virgin” (Atlanta)
    Earley & Savage (Las Vegas)

  • Famous (and now defunct) Boston law firm:
    Gaston Snow & Ely Bartlett prophetically morphed to “ghastly slow, easily beaten”.

  • After working there a number of years, I can attest it was “cruel and boring.”