Preface Prologue: What a Party! Foundations 1 The Handshake: Creating a New Law Firm 2 Building a Law Firm: The First Decade in Montreal 3 The Game Changer: Pierre Trudeau Comes on Board 4 "A Different Kind of Law Firm": Creating a Unique Culture 5 On the Verge: A Law Firm Seeking to Go Where? 6 Launching Toronto: Moving to the Centre of the Universe 7 Joe Groia: An Outsider among Outsiders 8 Toronto in the 1990s: Building an Office, Building a Brand 9 The Culture Crystallizes: "A Kinder, Gentler Law Firm" 10 Not Torys? Struggling to Define an Identity and a Vision Erosion 11 The Donaldson Interlude: Everyone Deserves a Second Chance 12 The Lure of Growth: Becoming a National Law Firm 13 The Critical Years: 1993-98 14 The New Millennium: The Culture Begins to Fray 15 A "Hotel for Lawyers": Law Firm Partnerships 16 "A Family Business": Governance and Management 17 Bigger than the Firm: Marcel Aubut 18 The Persistence of White Male Power: Women and Diversity in Big Law 19 The End of the Decade: End of the Dream Collapse 20 The Money Wells Dry Up: Castor Holdings and Atomic Energy 21 We'll Always Have Paris: International Follies 22 Lawyers, Guns, and Money: African Misadventures 23 Double Trouble: Botched Succession 24 Quicksand and Crisis: Coffee and Kleenex 25 Implosion: The Final Weeks 26 Cleaning Up: When a Law Firm Fails Conclusion Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.