{"id":165114,"date":"2026-10-15T14:29:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T22:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/15\/the-firm-that-decided-the-whole-world-was-its-market\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T14:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T22:29:32","slug":"the-firm-that-decided-the-whole-world-was-its-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/15\/the-firm-that-decided-the-whole-world-was-its-market\/","title":{"rendered":"The Firm That Decided The Whole World Was Its Market"},"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>Which Biglaw firm was founded in 1949 by a Chicago lawyer who\u2019d grown up poor in New Mexico \u2014 and, by some accounts, hopped freight trains to get to law school \u2014 on an idea the profession found faintly ridiculous: that a single law firm could span the globe, serving clients in every major commercial capital becoming the first truly multinational law firm in the world? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: It opened its first foreign office in Caracas, Venezuela, in the 1950s, and was decades later led by a woman who went on to run the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank.<\/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\/the-firm-that-decided-the-whole-world-was-its-market\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Firm That Decided The Whole World Was Its Market<\/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\/2024\/08\/GettyImages-172958171-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/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>Which Biglaw firm was founded in 1949 by a Chicago lawyer who\u2019d grown up poor in New Mexico \u2014 and, by some accounts, hopped freight trains to get to law school \u2014 on an idea the profession found faintly ridiculous: that a single law firm could span the globe, serving clients in every major commercial capital becoming the first truly multinational law firm in the world? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: It opened its first foreign office in Caracas, Venezuela, in the 1950s, and was decades later led by a woman who went on to run the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank.<\/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\/the-firm-that-decided-the-whole-world-was-its-market\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/the-firm-that-decided-the-whole-world-was-its-market\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! 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