<p>White & Case is as much a Wall Street firm (in the legal sense) as Goldman is a Wall Street firm in the financial sense. </p>
<p>If you ever read the Int’l Herald Tribune, or the Daily Telegraph, or indeed the Times [London], they refer to a certain type of lawyers as City solicitors, a certain type of consultants as City consultants, and a certain type of bankers City bankers (merchant/investment bankers). The same methodology covers the American cousin across the pond, Wall Street.</p>
<p>God, I tire of arguing moot points. Litigiousness must be in the American nature.</p>