by banned » Sat Nov 19, 2005 5:01 am
...after Jones Day Reavis & Pogue and Squire Sanders & Dempsey.<br><br>The "Baker" was Newton D. Baker of Cleveland, who became Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of War.<br><br>In the '80s/'90s the firm expanded out of Ohio (I think when I interviewed with them they only had the Cleveland and Columbus offices) and now have offices in DC, New York, LA, Houston and Denver among others.<br><br>I interviewed with them for a job my second year in law school. The high point or perhaps low point was some officious prick in a monogrammed oxfordcloth shirt who made a point of telling me he went to Harvard and took Con Law from "Larry" Tribe. I went home and quoth to my then-boyfriend, 'What a bunch of pompous asses.' They proceeded to hire and then blackball one of my friends who was also one of the top students in our class. This woman was not only brilliant but a very conscientious person so I have no idea what happened--I could posit she found out something she wasn't supposed to or otherwise crossed some powerful partner. In any case the hiring partner in the firm I ended up working for, who was interested in recruiting female litigators, considered hiring her but after a meeting with some of the other attorneys withdrew his support for the hire. He and I were close but he wouldn't tell me what he found out, only that, basically, she was radioactive. A few years after THAT my law review editor, another brilliant woman, was fired by B&H for an alleged 'conflict of interest' that she didn't know she had...till she walked in one day and was given 15 minutes to clean out her desk.<br><br>Make of that what you will. <br><br>In the Cleveland legal community Baker & Hostetler was considered a blue chip corporate law firm, of course. Bizarre how lawyers distinguish between the corporate types, who defend the political slimeballs and Ken Lays of the world but are supposed to be respectable, and the 'ambulance chasers' and 'slip and fall' lawyers, who may not wear fancy 3 piece suits, or have taken Con Law from 'Larry' Tribe, but aren't ass deep in white collar crime and dirty politics.<br><br>Was Abraham Zapruder Jewish? At one time most corporate law firms were either WASP or Jewish and it was rare to see Jews in the WASP firms. I'm sure that's broken down now.<br><br>Re: tax attorneys: for the rich and powerful, nobody knows more about them than their tax counsel! <br><br>I never knew Zapruder's son worked for the DoJ. Gosh, that's not suspicious or anything.<br><br>Here's Henry's blurb from the law firm site. If you have questions why not email him?<br><br>"Henry G. Zapruder<br>Partner<br>hzapruder@bakerlaw.com<br><br>Education:<br>LL.B., Harvard Law School, cum laude, 1962<br>University of Oxford, England, 1963<br>B.B.A., University of Oklahoma, Beta Gamma Sigma, 1959<br><br>Bar Admissions:<br>U.S. Courts of Appeals, Federal Circuit<br>U.S. Tax Court<br>U.S. Court of Federal Claims<br>District of Columbia, 1969<br>Texas Supreme Court<br><br>News:<br>09/07/2005<br>Fifty-One Baker & Hostetler Attorneys Named to the “Best Lawyers in Americaâ€