Oral history interview with Lawrence Lederman, 2014
Abstract
After detailing his early life in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Lederman narrates his process of becoming a lawyer. He tells of his experience clerking for Chief Justice Roger Traynor of the California Supreme Court, and then entering as an associate lawyer at Cravath, Swaine and Moore, LLP. He describes the origins of Phoenix House's relationship with Cravath, moving on to the extrication of Phoenix Ho use from New York City's Addiction Services Agency. He discusses his own move to Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz, LLP, in the context of the merger wave in corporate America. He explains the establishment of the Phoenix House Development Corporation, which handled private donations so that they would be separate from budgets submitted to the City. He discusses the nature and stature of the board among New York's elite, and the role of public service in the upper reaches of the law profession
Lawyers; Drug addicts--Rehabilitation--United States; Therapeutic communities; Substance abuse--Treatment; Consolidation and merger of corporations; Public interest law; Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.); Lederman, Lawrence; Traynor, Roger J; Phoenix House (Organization); Cravath, Swaine & Moore; Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; New York (N.Y.). Addiction Services Agency
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
2014
Physical Description
62 pages
Note (Biographical)
After detailing his early life in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Lawrence Lederman narrates his process of becoming a lawyer. He tells of his experience clerking for Chief Justice Roger Traynor of the California Supreme Court, and then entering as an associ ate lawyer at Cravath, Swaine and Moore, LLP. He describes the origins of Phoenix House's relationship with Cravath, moving on to the extrication of Phoenix House from New York City's Addiction Services Agency. He discusses his own move to Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz, LLP, in the context of the merger wave in corporate America. He explains the establishment of the Phoenix House Development Corporation, which handled private donations so that they would be separate from budgets submitted to the City. He discusses the nature and stature of the board among New York's elite, and the role of public service in the upper reaches of the law profession
Note
Interviewed by Lance Thurner on September 17, 2014
Note (Provenance)
Lawrence Lederman, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2016