Joe Flom.

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | February 24, 2011

No. 584

The WSJ Law Blog reports that Joe Flom, the lawyer who made an art form of the hostile takeover, died at 87.  He was the firm’s first Associate at the present Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in 1948 and is given major credit for turning the firm into one of the world’s largest and most lucrative.

If you want to learn how a lawyer can grab an opportunity that no one recognized and ride it to greatness, read Chapter 5 in Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Outliers – The Story of Success.”

CLT

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