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).
“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).
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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.”