First Thing, Kill All the Evidence

That small, obsessive crowd that settled down to watch the case pitting a young and promising associate against his former employer, the white-shoe law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, has not been disappointed.

These are not great moments in lawyering, the kind that puts The New York Times’ Linda Greenhouse on A1. This is “Lawyers Read More

Associate Gets Crushed Beneath White Shoe

Early on the morning of Feb. 13, 28-year-old former Sullivan & Cromwell associate Aaron Charney was not far from the white-shoe conference rooms at the firm’s offices on Broad Street, in the financial district.

But how far he had fallen!

He was consulting with labor lawyers from Alterman & Boop, the scrappy but respected Worth Read More