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Once The Second-Biggest Firm In America, Then The First To Blow Up

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Once the second-largest law firm in the country, which New York powerhouse Biglaw firm expanded by poaching rainmakers from rivals, paying partners on what business they brought in rather than seniority, stacking its letterhead with former U.S. senators, and borrowing heavily to expand into some two dozen cities before collapsing in late 1987 (widely considered the first Biglaw giant to collapse outright)?

Hint: Among its rainmaker hires were former senators Paul Laxalt and Russell Long; among its clients, a brash young New York developer named Donald Trump.

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