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<p> Vivid, savvy reportage. -- Kirkus Reviews A fascinating account of the ascendancy of Williams and Connolly to the highest reaches of the American law firm universe. Eisler vividly portrays a driven meritocracy, red of claw and fang, mastering the legal jungle with detail-laced portraits of the firm's major players and the rivals they almost invariably obliterated. Not coincidentally, Masters of the Game is also a riveting reference guide to many of the nation's most dramatic public showdowns of the past fifty years. --Hodding Carter III, former Assistant Secretary of State to President Carter, journalist, and Professor of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill <p> This is a wise, authoritative and highly readable book. Kim Eisler has spent a good many years studying how Washington and Washington law firms work. In Masters of the Game, he shares with us what he has learned and tells the dramatic story of one fabled firm. --Stanley Cloud,

<p> Vivid, savvy reportage.&#8221;-- Kirkus Reviews A fascinating account of the ascendancy of Williams and Connolly to the highest reaches of the American law firm universe. Eisler vividly portrays&#160;a driven meritocracy, red of claw and fang, mastering the legal jungle with detail-laced portraits of the firm's major players and the rivals they almost invariably obliterated. Not coincidentally, Masters of the Game is also a riveting reference guide to many of the nation's most dramatic public showdowns of the past fifty years. --Hodding Carter III, former Assistant Secretary of State to President Carter, journalist, and Professor of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill <p> This is a wise, authoritative and highly readable book. Kim Eisler has spent a good many years studying how Washington and Washington law firms work. In Masters of the Game, he shares with us what he has learned and tells the dramatic story of one fabled firm. --Sta

<p> Vivid, savvy reportage. -- Kirkus Reviews A fascinating account of the ascendancy of Williams and Connolly to the highest reaches of the American law firm universe. Eisler vividly portrays a driven meritocracy, red of claw and fang, mastering the legal jungle with detail-laced portraits of the firm's major players and the rivals they almost invariably obliterated. Not coincidentally, Masters of the Game is also a riveting reference guide to many of the nation's most dramatic public showdowns of the past fifty years. --Hodding Carter III, former Assistant Secretary of State to President Carter, journalist, and Professor of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill <p> This is a wise, authoritative and highly readable book. Kim Eisler has spent a good many years studying how Washington and Washington law firms work. In Masters of the Game , he shares with us what he has learned and tells the dramatic story of one fabled firm. --Stanley Cloud, former Washington bureau chief, Time , and co-author of The Murrow Boys and A Question of Honor <p> As he did in Shark Tank , Kim Eisler exposes the good, the bad, and the ugly about the world of corporate law through the fascinating lens of one of America's most unique, powerful and controversial firms. A must-read for anyone contemplating a career as a lawyer. --Nadine Strossen, Former President of American Civil Liberties Union and Professor of Law at the New York Law School

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KIM EISLER is an investigative journalist covering legal and business issues. Since 1993, he has been a lead columnist and editor for Washingtonian Magazine.

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