Dear Sarah,
Your father tells me you started a job at Cravath, Swaine & Moore earlier this fall. Perhaps you are aware that I spent some of my formative years at that firm.
Law professor Charles Reich, who went on to write "The Greening of America," began his legal career at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in 1952. In this letter to a new associate, he describes the firm of yesteryear, when only men worked at Cravath because women were deemed a "distraction," no one was too high up to proofread documents, and billable hours and making partner weren't a big deal. The message was: Excellent work is expected, but the pressure is off. Associates were on the inside for life.
December 17, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Dear Sarah,
Your father tells me you started a job at Cravath, Swaine & Moore earlier this fall. Perhaps you are aware that I spent some of my formative years at that firm.
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