The pay ranges from $10 an hour at a government agency to $45 an hour at a blue-chip firm.
But the blue-chip firm of Rosenman & Colin turned out to be eager to get him.
America's banking troubles have also brought in business: Swiss banks have been flooded both with deposits and loan requests from blue-chip American firms.
Mr. Faure estimated that the Government spent between $640 million and $770 million of its foreign reserves to buy shares of blue-chip firms.
Morgan is a blue-chip firm that advises America's biggest companies, while Van Kampen looks after the nest eggs of roughly two million Americans.
I was a wonderful story--ambitious young lawyer transformed into an advocate for the poor; turns back on blue-chip firm to work for nothing.
The bonds are rated lower than the investment-grade issues of blue-chip firms, and thus pay higher yields.
They distribute impressive, plausible-sounding research reports and investment newsletters, just like the blue-chip firms.
But in the 1980's, this blue-chip firm lost its footing.
Parker Auspitz was organized in 1977, when a handful of lawyers at two blue-chip firms in New York left to hang out their own shingle.
