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Colleagues said his successes propelled his L.A. firm to become a white-shoe powerhouse, with offices around the globe.

These involve some of the big white-shoe conservative law firms, Consovoy McCarthy and others in D.C.

It turns out that one of America’s best known white-shoe law firms, WilmerHale, was intricately involved.

The partners at her white-shoe law firm — whose salaries were at least five times her own — seemed to feel entitled to vent.

Columbia and New York University, he said, tend to place large numbers of law school graduates into white-shoe law firms, though so do institutions like the Howard University School of Law.