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Veteran legal issues reporter Kim Eisler takes us behind the scenes into mega law firm Williams & Connolly, guiding us on a journey through the many storied cases that have served to shape current policies in public and private sector alike
For the past twenty years, author and journalist Kim Eisler has covered the law firm of Williams & Connolly, first at American Lawyer Magazine, then for Legal Times and since 1993 as National Editor of Washingtonian Magazine. More than any other writer, Kim has unprecedented and unusual contacts and relationships with the partners, as well as a background knowledge and familiarity with the firm's history and personnel over the past two decades.
In Masters of the Game, Eisler sets out to demonstrate how the disciples of Edward Bennett Williams went beyond anyone's expectations and came to occupy key roles in American culture and business. In the last ten years of his life, Williams, the founder of Williams and Connolly, often said he was building not just a law firm but a monument. Masters of the Game is not only about a law firm, but about how the philosophy and practices of this particular law firm have spread out beyond Washington to dominate business, finance, sports and the American psyche itself through its influence with past, present and future political, corporate and media figures.
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Very "readable." Introduces a lot of names in chapter intros, but he does a pretty good job working in references so you can keep track of who's who. Sometimes switches the references between first and last names, which can be confusing when tired.
Excellent analogies to todays' times, not stodgy or condescending.
Occasionally swings and misses. Said the film, The Silence of the Lambs, was about a FBI agent who prosecutes a cannibalistic killer. He was talking about first a psycho stalks Jodi Foster, then Jodi Foster plays a FBI agent after a psycho. Somehow, this oversight fits right into the lawyerly slanting and media spin jockeying.
Not enough to make it a bad read. Enjoyable and informative.
Kudos to Kim Eisler for what is among the top 5 books I've ever read about the legal profession in general and large law firms in particular. This author knows his stuff, from a legal perspective, and, equally importantly, knows how to keep interest in his story. (The characters in this book are so larger-than-life, I suppose it was relatively easy for Eisler to write an interesting yarn featuring them, but he also manages to intertwine the various episodes well; in addition, his excellent grasp of the relevant legal concepts make you confident you are reading a knowledgeably-written book as well. Highly, highly recommended for anyone with even the slightest interest in either Washington politics or large law firm life, or both.
Kim Eisler certainly has his way with an anecdote. Here he treats his readers to the inside story of the Oliver North case, the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Ted Stevens trial, and other famous cases of the last 25 years or so. His account of how Williams & Connolly became as powerful as it is today takes up the story more or less where Evan Thomas' outstanding biography of Edward Bennett Williams leaves off -- at Williams' death in 1988. Eisler (full disclosure -- a former journalistic colleague of mine at Legal Times) has obtained as much access as any other journalist, or more, to the notoriously publicity-shy partners at the firm, including Brendan Sullivan, who almost never discusses his cases publicly. This book is a great read. Eisler grabs the reader's attention and holds it. My only reservation is that it tells the story through the careers of five leading partners (who are all interesting individuals, don't get me wrong) but doesn't really tackle the firm as a whole. Other partners are often bit players in the story of the five central characters. Perhaps it's my many years as a legal reporter, but I would have enjoyed learning a bit more about the administrative and management decisions that firm leaders made over the years, the conflicts and strains that no doubt accompanied the firm's growth to a size of 250 lawyers, the interesting issues (I assume) of ensuring the success of minority and women lawyers in the firm, and so on.
Any white collar criminal and all trial lawyers must read this interesting story of the representation every client should expect from his lawyer. The account of numerous and various legal engagements Williams & Connolly lawyers have been involved in since its founding outlines the ethical limits that are not crossed by the lawyers while aggressively, imaginatively and successfully representing clients. The representation by Sullivan, Barnett,Craig, Seligman et al is the epitome of the representation every client of every lawyer should expect and receive but as Masters clearly shows this type of legal work can be obtained from only Williams & Connolly. Regretfully the author gives almost no treatment of the firm's early years. Nonetheless, a masterful job of re- counting the more significant matters handled by a handful- albeit the most prominent- members of the Williams law firm and inculcating the firm's ethos in all of its lawyers for all types of matters. Masters is not a manual for lawyers; it is just an interesting chronology of various engagements for various clients and an extremely successful approach to trying cases.
This is a 2010 book telling of the law firm of Williams & Connally, My interest in the firm goes back to my law school days. Edward Bennett Williams (whose biography The Man To See by Evan Thomas, I read with much appreciation on 17 Jan 1992) taught my criminal law class at Georgetown Law in 1950--and a very good teacher he was. This book tells of Williams, who died in 1988, and of the firm which is a major player in the legal world in Washington. The book abounds in stories and gossip about the firm, but has no footnotes and not a single legal citation. But it is unfailingly interesting and so far as one can tell is accurate. Brendan Sullivan, who became famous while representing Oliver North, has seldom lost a case and often the prosecutors are the ones in trouble after tangling with Sullivan.
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