white-shoe
adjective
: of, associated with, or characteristic of the privileged moneyed upper class : upper-crust
a white-shoe law firm
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Her first job out of Yale Law School was as a prosecutor with the Manhattan district attorney’s office — a different path from many of her classmates who sought high-paying jobs with white-shoe law firms.
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Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2025
China, India, the Gulf states, and the larger European countries all hire expensive and highly reputed lobbying and white-shoe law firms to advance their interests in Congress.
—Jorge G. CastaÑeda, Foreign Affairs, 4 Feb. 2025
The federal judiciary, particularly at its highest levels, had become increasingly homogeneous in recent decades, populated mostly by white men with careers in prosecutors’ offices and white-shoe law firms.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2024
Few companies are as well positioned as Disney — with its Jedi-level brand power and a veritable army of the best white-shoe lawyers money can buy — to stomach such a fight.
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 19 Dec. 2024
Bates plays a septuagenarian lawyer who returns to the workforce at a fancy white-shoe New York law firm seemingly out of desperate financial need.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
Those include a Supreme Court ruling overturning the Arthur Andersen convictions; the ever-revolving door of DOJ lawyers going to white-shoe law firms; and more prosecutors who fear losing cases.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
OnlyFans is being represented by Skadden, the white-shoe 76-year-old New York law firm that is the sixth largest in the world by revenue.
—Joel Stein, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
Foreign governments and multinational corporations spend exorbitant sums to influence the system, while white-shoe law firms and K Street lobbying shops have built booming sanctions practices — in part by luring government officials to cash in on their expertise.
—Federica Cocco, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
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Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2025
China, India, the Gulf states, and the larger European countries all hire expensive and highly reputed lobbying and white-shoe law firms to advance their interests in Congress.
—Jorge G. CastaÑeda, Foreign Affairs, 4 Feb. 2025
The federal judiciary, particularly at its highest levels, had become increasingly homogeneous in recent decades, populated mostly by white men with careers in prosecutors’ offices and white-shoe law firms.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2024
Few companies are as well positioned as Disney — with its Jedi-level brand power and a veritable army of the best white-shoe lawyers money can buy — to stomach such a fight.
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 19 Dec. 2024
Bates plays a septuagenarian lawyer who returns to the workforce at a fancy white-shoe New York law firm seemingly out of desperate financial need.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
Those include a Supreme Court ruling overturning the Arthur Andersen convictions; the ever-revolving door of DOJ lawyers going to white-shoe law firms; and more prosecutors who fear losing cases.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
OnlyFans is being represented by Skadden, the white-shoe 76-year-old New York law firm that is the sixth largest in the world by revenue.
—Joel Stein, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
Foreign governments and multinational corporations spend exorbitant sums to influence the system, while white-shoe law firms and K Street lobbying shops have built booming sanctions practices — in part by luring government officials to cash in on their expertise.
—Federica Cocco, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
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