“When I was a young man I had my doubts about institutions. But, as it happens, you grow up and come to think maybe they are not so bad. This is one of America’s great institutions.”Cravath Swaine & Moore is seen as New York's quintessential law firm. But it is not the biggest, nor does it have a wide international reach. In a changing economic marketplace will its individual approach still win through? Antony Collins reports
February 25, 2004 at 07:03 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Legalweek
“Are they the best? They certainly think they are.”
Managing partner, New York rival
There was little to suggest, when RM Blatchford founded his eponymous legal practice in 1819, that it would emerge 185 years later as arguably the most celebrated firm in the US commercial market.
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