How to Use white-shoe in a Sentence

white-shoe

adjective

• The white-shoe law firm got caught red-handed.
  — Max Raskin, Washington Post, 19 May 2026
• On the list were universities, white-shoe law firms, and some of America’s largest banks.
  — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026
• On first encounter, Humphreys seems an unlikely choice to take on topflight white-shoe defense firms hired by the United States' most profitable news channel.
  — David Folkenflik, NPR, 4 Oct. 2026
• Wachtell Lipton, the white-shoe Manhattan law firm conducting the investigation, has no deadline from the league to produce its findings.
  — Arkansas Online, 15 Feb. 2026
• Banks maintained long-standing relationships with corporate clients; white-shoe law firms didn’t compete for business; hostile takeovers and the like were regarded as somewhat unsavory.
  — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
• Linklaters approached Cleary Gottlieb about a merger earlier this year and was rebuffed, in what would have been the latest tie-up of white-shoe law firms, according to people familiar with the matter.
  — Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 13 July 2026
• After the setback, Nevada retained new counsel from the white-shoe firm Mayer Brown, including lawyers who have argued dozens of cases at the Supreme Court.
  — Marshall Cohen, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
• Jim Woolery was a dealmaker at the white-shoe law firm Cravath before leaving to run M&A at JPMorgan.
  — Ellen Dimauro, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
• Federal prosecutors’ indictment of 30 white-shoe lawyers and their associates, alleging more than a decade of insider trading on corporate mergers, is both juicy and quaint.
  — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 7 May 2026
• Meta and Google each had multiple partners from white-shoe firms at the defense table every day for eight weeks in Los Angeles, attorneys who can command thousands of dollars per billable hour.
  — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2026
• In 1998, Jeffries joined the white-shoe New York law firm Paul, Weiss, where he was taken under the wing of Ted Wells, the firm’s only Black partner.
  — Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
• Then-commissioner David Stern, for the first time, hired Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, a prestigious white-shoe law firm a few blocks away from the league office in midtown Manhattan.
  — Joe Vardon, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
• In recent weeks, Baker McKenzie, a white-shoe law firm, axed 700 employees, Salesforce sacked hundreds of workers, and the auditing firm KPMG negotiated lower fees with its own auditor.
  — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2026
• With an undergraduate diploma from Middlebury and a law degree from the University of Virginia, Lorch worked on international deals in Europe and was of counsel at the white-shoe Manhattan law firm Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan.
  — Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025