Masters of the Game: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Firm

Kim Eisler, a veteran legal issues reporter, provides an inside look at Williams & Connolly, a major law firm, and examines the significant cases that have influenced public and private sector policies. Eisler has covered Williams & Connolly for over twenty years, writing first for American Lawyer Magazine, then Legal Times, and since 1993 as National Editor of Washingtonian Magazine. He has developed extensive contacts with the firm's partners and possesses deep knowledge of its history and personnel. In Masters of the Game, Eisler explores how the followers of Edward Bennett Williams, the firm's founder, advanced beyond expectations and assumed prominent positions in American culture and business. Williams stated in his final decade that he was building not merely a law firm but a monument. The book examines how this particular law firm's philosophy and practices have extended beyond Washington to influence business, finance, sports, and American society through its connections with political, corporate, and media figures.