Cadwalader’s Strange Visitors
In our latest column for the New York Observer, we shine the spotlight on a firm that has figured prominently in these pages lately:
Founded in 1792, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft is “the oldest continuing Wall Street law practice in the United States,” as its website proudly notes. Name partner George Wickersham was attorney general under President Taft, and name partner Henry Taft was the president’s brother.In addition to being one of New York’s oldest firms, Cadwalader is also one of the most lucrative. Last year, it was the city’s third-most-profitable law firm, behind perennial leaders Wachtell and Cravath.
But in the past few months, CWT has hosted some rather surprising visitors—at least by the standards of a prestigious, white-shoe law firm.
Some of these visitors will be familiar to ATL readers, but one will not. You can read the whole piece — and view a rather odd photo of Cameron Diaz and CWT litigation chair Gregory Markel — over here.
Update: If you’re wondering about the identity of the Pimp, the mystery has been solved! Peter Lattman has the scoop over at the WSJ Law Blog.
Cadwalader’s Strange Visitors [New York Observer]
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That photo of Cameron looks so forced and contrived. Also, I don;t care if she is my cousin, I'd hit that ass anyway...
why does the New York Observer want me to save a file onto my computer when I click on the link?
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the observers website is garbage. it rarely works.
If it's a link problem, you can try pasting this link into your browser:
http://nyobserver.com/2007/cadwalader-s-strange-visitors
12:37 should not only be banned from ATL, he should be banned from the internet...nay from the human race. If you are going to do this lame first thing, at least be close. Two full minutes after the first two posts. Ridiculous.
http://www.mofo.com/news/news/12952.html
It's officially MoFo day in NY. All the more deserved since the SD office is in the path of the fire right now.
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I would like to know more about this "pimp" character, and whether he is encroaching on my bitches. I put in work to get these hos on the track fresh and ripe out of law school, wine em and dine em, gussy them up to earn me my ends. Those pretty little asses are all mine to trick out until they are old, tired and suicidal.
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Piercie Shafton to Fired!
White girls with asian guys! WGWAG
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(thanks to 1246 for the insight and motivation)
Getting all riled up about people posting 'First' is like getting mad at the sun for setting. It is going to happen. Your stress levels will decrease if you just let it go.
I want to see a picture of the PIMP
12:46-
You miss the point.
Take 1:25's advice.
I told that pimp I run shit around here, from Beaver to John, West Side to Maiden Lane. This is my track. I'm chief pimp up in here and he's gonna get his knees capped if he steps to my hoes. My bitches are top shelf, 7.5:1 at $400 and hour and up. Links Up, "the Pimp" down.
job well done, lat. an excellent (and superbly written) article.
We seriously need more on the pimp. Is he a benefits administrator? Is there a thing like "work past 6, get dinner; work past 8, get a cab; work past midnight, get a hooker"?
I always heard that the Bowne guys at Cad had a bookie/blow business.. This seems like a natural expansion.
Either that or Link found a new way to turn out T3 grads.
Best line from the article: "He wears the hat and everything!"
The Cameron Diaz salary is food for thought. We get all worked up over $190K, but she makes $15 million a picture (and can make several in a year).
It's not that I get "riled up" about people doing the first thing. But if you are going to do something that definitively is ridiculous, at least do it well. It's the incompetence that riles me up.
Pimp comes from the 28th Floor. What is on the 28th FLOOR???
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The Cameron Diaz salary is food for thought. We get all worked up over $190K, but she makes $15 million a picture (and can make several in a year).
And she is a Hollywood actress whos pictures generate hundreds of millions while the BIGLAW tools on here are grossly overpaid paper shufflers- your point?
Lat failed to mention that the pimp looks exactly like Ron Isley. He seriously does.
Which elevator bank is this PIMP in?
2:25, CWT must be a good client. Bowne only gave us sports tickets and umbrellas.
I have obtained exclusive photos of this "Pimp" and have posted them online.
Here he is:
http://www.forthegoodtimes.com/images/Austin.jpg
Has anyone posted FIRST yet?
can we get back to making fun of CWT?