Bruce Bromley

Bruce Bromley (1893–?) was one of the most prominent trial lawyers in America at his time. He was born in Pontiac, Michigan in 1893. He entered Harvard Law School in 1914 but left to serve in the U. S. Navy during World War I. He received his law degree from Harvard University after the war. He later joined the law firm that is now known as Cravath, Swaine & Moore [ [http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF1202/Haygood/Haygood.html Powell At The Supreme Court] ] and stayed with it for more than 50 years. Bruce Bromley had achieved prominence in American legal circles by working hard, much harder than the other lawyers around him. While at Cravath, he won big cases for IBM, Westinghouse Electric, Bethlehem Steel, General Motors, Esquire Magazine, and other big corporate giants. [ [http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF1202/Haygood/Haygood.html Powell At The Supreme Court] ] In 1949, Governor of New York Thomas Dewey appointed Bromley Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. [ [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70915FD3959157A93C7A8178AD85F4D8485F9 BROMLEY SELECTED FOR APPEALS BENCH; Chosen by Dewey After Latter Confers With the Leaders of Bar Here and in State] ]

Colleagues said that he "read documents and painstakingly studied and edited drafts of briefs, leaving the rest of us gasping at his continuing practice of phoning post midnight changes to the printer."

A law chair at Harvard Law School is named after him. [ [http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/facdir.php?id=428 Bruce Bromley Professor of Law] ]

Further reading

*cite book | author= Stewart, James | title=The Partners: Inside America's Most Powerful Law Firms | publisher=Simon & Schuster | location=New York | year=1983 | id=ISBN 0-671-42023-2
*cite book | author=Hoffman, Paul | title=Lions in the Street: The Inside Story of the Great Wall Street Law Firms | publisher=Saturday Review Press | location=New York | year=1973 | id=ISBN 0-841-50235-8

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External links

* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE1D9133FF933A15756C0A96E948260 THE LAW; At The Bar]
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,948072-7,00.html Those #X!!! Lawyers]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52296-2005Mar20.html Picture of Bruce Bromley]