Meanings of white-shoe in English

Historically known as a white-shoe investment bank, Goldman Sachs traditionally required formal business attire.

Subordinates, such as the law associates at Helen's white-shoe firm, were implements, background features.

You see what I mean about these white-shoe guys?

But he soon traded life at the white-shoe law firm for the faster pace of Wall Street.

Erwin O. Smigel writes about New York's old white-shoe lawfirms in The Wall Street Lawyer: Professional Organization Man?

Dulles had been a junior diplomat after World War I and a white-shoe Wall Street lawyer in the Depression.

Muriel's unappetising Queensland family was brilliantly led by Gary Sweet as the detestable white-shoe developer and would-be politician, Bill Heslop.

The next year, after Democrat Bill Clinton became president, Roberts moved on to the white-shoe law firm of Hogan & Hartson in Washington.

The fortunate few will watch players like Federer, Williams and Nadal from suites paid for by credit card companies and white-shoe law firms.

I'd been told that Morgan Stanley was a white-shoe investment bank that advised many of the largest and best companies in the world.

The white-shoe law firms would call in Flom as well whenever some corporate raider made a run at one of their establishment clients.

His smile was slightly self-conscious, or ironic maybe, perhaps an awareness of the fact that he was presenting himself as a white-shoe lawyer.

He played a key role in pushing the white-shoe partnership to become a publicly traded bank in 1999, although he was ousted by Paulson.

After clerking I wanted to go to a firm where I'd have more responsibility and less hierarchy than the white-shoe places, so I joined Blake.