{"id":164931,"date":"2026-10-13T15:53:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T23:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/13\/this-biglaw-co-founders-side-project-was-engineering-a-revolution\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T15:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T23:53:36","slug":"this-biglaw-co-founders-side-project-was-engineering-a-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/13\/this-biglaw-co-founders-side-project-was-engineering-a-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"This Biglaw Co-Founder\u2019s Side Project Was Engineering A Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the early 1900s, a founding partner of which Wall Street law firm was hired by French investors desperate to recoup their losses on a failed canal project and ran one of the most audacious lobbying campaigns in American history, steering the U.S. government to route its canal through Panama instead of Nicaragua, helping to bankroll and orchestrate a revolution that split Panama off from Colombia, and collecting an $800,000 fee for his trouble? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: Part of the campaign involved mailing U.S. senators Nicaraguan postage stamps depicting an erupting volcano, to scare them off that route for the canal. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/this-biglaw-co-founders-side-project-was-engineering-a-revolution\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This Biglaw Co-Founder\u2019s Side Project Was Engineering A Revolution<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/02\/panama-canal-GettyImages-2197143001-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"post-single__featured-image-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI\/AFP via Getty Images)\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the early 1900s, a founding partner of which Wall Street law firm was hired by French investors desperate to recoup their losses on a failed canal project and ran one of the most audacious lobbying campaigns in American history, steering the U.S. government to route its canal through Panama instead of Nicaragua, helping to bankroll and orchestrate a revolution that split Panama off from Colombia, and collecting an $800,000 fee for his trouble? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: Part of the campaign involved mailing U.S. senators Nicaraguan postage stamps depicting an erupting volcano, to scare them off that route for the canal. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/this-biglaw-co-founders-side-project-was-engineering-a-revolution\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/this-biglaw-co-founders-side-project-was-engineering-a-revolution\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. 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