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White-Shoe Firm
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White-shoe firm
Broker-dealer firms that disdain practices such as hostile takeovers.
White-Shoe Firm
Informal; a broker-dealer that does not engage in hostile takeovers on principle. That is, white-shoe firms believe hostile takeovers to be an unfair business practice.
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Deveraux is new to the Brooklyn public defenders' office, fresh from six months probation following a dizzying, drug-related fall from grace--he's let go from his first job out of law school, at a prestigious white shoe firm, after the paralegal he's been palling around with turns up dead of a heroin overdose in the firm's bathroom.
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