And there is no doubt that Allen and Goetz deserve substantial credit for these successes. Indeed, despite initially making an odd pairing – the more reserved Goetz was cut from different cloth to the gregarious sports fanatic Allen – the pair became close colleagues and an effective team. Indeed, in many ways his work at White & Case has proved Allen’s vindication, disproving critics that argued that a career built on his early success at CC had long been sustained by spin.

Papering over some great big cracks