Tennis has a reputation as a sport for elites, favored by the white-shoe, country club set.
Finance jobs are typically associated with white-shoe investment banks or the opaque world of hedge funds.
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Even white-shoe Washington lawyers Patten Boggs are involved on the plaintiff side.
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Goldman became known more for its trading prowess than its white-shoe advisory practice.
Then it might be the white-shoe Wall Street establishment of fifty years ago against the embodiment of twenty-first-century post-ethnic America.
In New York, it's probably because you're stuck past midnight at your entry-level job at Goldman Sachs or some white-shoe law firm.
So what does all of this have to do with prosecutors who get a few scalps and then move to white-shoe law firms?
While the white-shoe investment bank continues to be a career destination for many, "it's easier to recruit some of those people out, " Karp says.
Whilst transporting your white-shoe friends out to East Egg, the Panamera GTS glides serenely on its air springs (double wishbones in front, multilink rear).
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It's snazzy stuff for a venerable, white-shoe firm so taciturn that it omits the Goldman name on its headquarters tower a few blocks south of Wall Street.
Mazzio's included a law degree from Georgetown University, a partner position at white-shoe firm Brown Rudnick in Boston and board-memberships at the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and the National Rowing Foundation.
There have been white-shoe clients.
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White should also recognize that the SEC faces the same talent pool issues as do all federal bureaucracies: Is it preferable to hire some Ivy Leaguer from a white-shoe law firm for three years or to reward and cultivate the hard work of an SEC employee seeking to make a career in regulation?
She was rah-rah for Web 1.0 from the vantage point of the white shoe I-banker who was going to take you public.
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Morgan Stanley has a white shoe, burnished-mahogany image as an adviser to major corporations and the super rich, while Dean Witter was best known for its retail brokerage that appealed to Main Street investors.
An hour before his Emporio Armani presentation, the designer slipped on a pair of plastic shoe covers and stood on the pristine white runway to give the 70-odd models his ritual pep talk.
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