white shoe探源

摘要

<正> 近来,white shoe 频频出现在报纸杂志上。The New York Times在描述一位在一家有声望的律师事务所工作的律师时这样写道:“She isa lawyer in a‘white shoe’firm”。在最近的The American Lawyer上一位不愿透露姓名的新会员也是这样描述芝加哥的一家律师事务所Kirkland & Ellipse 的:“hip people of the’90s...have shed the old stuffy‘white shoe’law firm attitude for an open,work-hard-and-play-harder