The Firm That Decided The Whole World Was Its Market

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Which Biglaw firm was founded in 1949 by a Chicago lawyer who’d grown up poor in New Mexico — and, by some accounts, hopped freight trains to get to law school — on an idea the profession found faintly ridiculous: that a single law firm could span the globe, serving clients in every major commercial capital becoming the first truly multinational law firm in the world?

Hint: It opened its first foreign office in Caracas, Venezuela, in the 1950s, and was decades later led by a woman who went on to run the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank.

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