It's one of the oldest white-shoe firms on the Street.

But the effort is likely to scuff its white-shoe image a bit.

Its white-shoe crew set the record for crossing the Atlantic.

It is lush as the carpet in a white-shoe law firm.

That's the kind of money that lawyers at white-shoe firms earn working full time.

He opted instead to position himself for a lucrative spot at a white-shoe law firm.

Then, briefly, the activity became fashionable, even among white-shoe firms.

Even so, don't investment bankers and white-shoe lawyers earn more?

Theirs was more than just a white-shoe law firm.

For years, outsourcing has been a dirty word inside the world of white-shoe law firms.

Were you afraid an anecdote like that might have compromised the white-shoe tone of your story?

Both men said they would support a merger but insisted that the white-shoe Drexel name had to come first.

"I refuse to concede to a white-shoe firm from a city bar.

It pleases me to think of Auchincloss’s white-shoe resentment.

She is a lawyer at a white-shoe firm, he is a stockbroker.

That group tends to gravitate to investment banking and white-shoe firms.

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

"We have noticed the white-shoe trend bubbling under the radar since spring/summer 2012," she says.

Keeping to its conservative, white-shoe image, it advised the company to hold down the road show's razzle-dazzle.

Last week, Goldman became the latest formerly white-shoe firm to relax its dress code.

Not so long ago, few white-shoe law firms had lawyers devoted to defending clients against investigation and prosecution.

The hero of "Head Cases" is a white-shoe litigator with a dark side.

Davis Polk and other white-shoe firms spent much of 2012 writing comments letters to regulators about the rules.

Mr. Nickerson was a patrician, white-shoe lawyer with no experience in government.

Some white-shoe law firms are giving employees the day off, while banks and investment firms, following the lead of the market, will generally be open.