Trying Cases A Life in the Law / Haliburton Fales 2d.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fales, Haliburton, 1919- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fales, Haliburton, 1919-.

Corporate lawyers.

Corporate lawyers--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [1997]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Haliburton Fales 2d, former President of the New York State Bar Association and senior partner in the law firm White & Case, has been centrally, until recently, involved during his professional life of the past half century in the on-going changes that have swept through American Law. These changes, no less profound than parallel and similar changes in American society at large, are described in this engaging account of the joys of trying cases.Fales takes the reader behind closed doors at the firm, into judges' chambers, and to government and industry-sponsored roundtables of the 1980's and 90's. From this, a larger story emerges, namely that of the development of corporate law as seen by an American trial lawyer, an evolution from an enterprise primarily local into one that is immensely powerful, broadly diversified, and increasingly global.

Contents:

In the zone

Getting under way at White & Case

Early family and professional growth

Antitrust and bankruptcy cases

The steel tax case

The McDonnell Douglas aircraft case

A product liability case

Stockholder suits

New times, new challenges for White & Case

Service and professional responsibility.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8147-2881-2

OCLC:

906950612