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unusual facts about The Firm



Abby McDeere

Abigail "Abby" McDeere (née Sutherland) is a fictional character in John Grisham's 1991 novel The Firm.

Brennan Family Restaurants

In 1993, John Grisham's book-to-movie, "The Firm" featured Owen Brennan's in a business lunch meeting between Tom Cruise & Gene Hackman in cocktail area of the restaurant.

Can't Believe

It was written and produced by Sean Combs and Mario Winans for Evans' third studio album Faithfully (2001) and is built around a sample of "Phone Tap" as performed by The Firm and penned by Nas, Anthony Cruz, Chris Taylor, Jermaine Baxter, and Dr. Dre.

Cut Loose

The song "Live In Peace" was re-recorded by his next band The Firm on their second album Mean Business.

David Rabe

He has also written Hurlyburly (both the play and the screenplay for the film version), and the screenplays for the Vietnam War drama Casualties of War (1989) and the film adaptation of John Grisham's The Firm (1993).

Memphis Suspension Railway

In the 1993 film The Firm, Mitch McDeere, played by Tom Cruise, uses the railway to escape from "The Firm" that is out to kill him.

Rod Norman

Rod is later forced to act against his principles, when he is threatened by Brad Williams (Jonathan Stratt), a dodgy member of The Firm, and is forced to stitch up local publican Den Watts (Leslie Grantham).

Ryan Kahn

While attending UCLA, Ryan interned for such entertainment powerhouses as The Firm, Inc., DC Management, and then Warner Music Group, where he was hired to work with some of music’s greats.

Shaun Majumder

In the summer of 2011 Majumder was cast in The Firm in the recurring role of Andrew Palmer, the lawyer at the firm who befriends Josh Lucas' character Mitch McDeere.


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10 Murray Street

The building was designed by the firm of Hartley Wilson and Partners, with the original design by Dirk Bolt and with later revisions by David Hartley Wilson.

Abitibi-Consolidated

Following the death of Price Sr sons William Evan Price and Evans John Price took over and the firm became Price Brothers and Company Limited.

Albert Henry Loeb

In 1895, Sears Roebuck and Co. became a client of Loeb & Adler when Aaron Nusbaum and Richard Warren Sears retained the firm to draft reorganization documents whereby Nusbaum and Julius Rosenwald became owners of Sears.

Archibald Peake

He resigned his position as district clerk when he entered politics, and afterward was in business at Mount Barker as a member of the firm of auctioneers, Monks and Peake.

Armet Davis Newlove Architects

Photographer Jack Laxer who did stereo pictures (3-D when polarized glasses are worn) took photos of the firm's work.

Big Active

Book design credits include the David Bailey photo-book 'Chasing Rainbows', Jocelyn Bain Hogg's photo-documentary on London's gangster underworld - 'The Firm', and Deidre O'Callaghan's 'Hide That Can' as well as their own 1995 publication 'Head-Heart-Hips'.

Boy Commandos

It was revealed years later that Brooklyn was Dan Turpin, that André Chavard had become the head of the French Intelligence Département Gamma, and that Alfie Twidgett was now the head of the firm Statistical Occurrences Ltd.

Buckeye Partners

Buckeye pipelines supply aviation fuel to major airports in New York City, and the firm's property was listed by United States federal prosecutors as being among the targets of the 2007 John F. Kennedy International Airport attack plot.

Cerizay

The firm currently construct the roof module for the Peugeot 206CC and till 2009 built the Vauxhall/Opel Tigra Twin Top.

Charles Comfort Tiffany

After her death, he commissioned a stained glass window in her memory showing the view from their Connecticut summer home, from the firm of his relative Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Conaco

The firm also produced the Andy Richter series Andy Barker, P.I. for six episodes as well as the drama Outlaw, about a former Supreme Court justice (Jimmy Smits) who starts a law firm, which was canceled after a few episodes.

Dalmarnock

From its beginnings in boiler making, the firm later became renowned for its achievements in the field of Structural engineering.

Donaldson and Meier

The early designs from the firm, such as the Unitarian Universalist Church in Ann Arbor, were frequently in the Richardsonian Romanesque style but, as with many other architectural companies whose longevity outlast the style of the day, their output changed with the times.

Edward Baldwin Whitney

In 1883, with General Henry Lawrence Burnett, who was a member of that firm, he formed the firm of Burnett & Whitney.

Greenlight Capital

As of 2013, the top equity holdings of the firm were in the shares of the following companies: Apple Inc, General Motors, Marvell Technology Group, CIGNA, Aetna, Computer Sciences, Delphi Automotive, NCR Corp., and Virgin Media.

Herman Ambrosius Jan Baanders

Major projects of the firm in the period up to the mid-1920s included the district of Heijplaat in the harbour of Rotterdam (1912-1921) — originally built as a garden city (tuindorp) to house the employees of the Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij shipping company — and the Amsterdam secondary school Amsterdams Lyceum (1917-1922).

Hogan Lovells

Soon after formation, the firm moved to Thavies Inn at Holborn Circus and later to Serjeant's Inn, Fleet Street, before moving to 21 Holborn Viaduct in October 1977.

The firm traced its history in the UK back to 1899, when John Lovell set up on his own account at Octavia Hill, between St Paul's and Smithfield.

Houlihan Lokey

During this period the firm advised on almost 1000 restructuring transactions (including 12 of the 15 largest bankruptcy cases), special situations or Distressed M&A, with aggregate debt claims in excess of $1.5 trillion, including cases such as Lehman Brothers, WorldCom, Enron, General Motors and CIT Group.

Hult Center for the Performing Arts

The firm had previously designed the $7.5-million, 2,700-seat Minneapolis Orchestra Hall and the $13-million Boettcher Concert Hall at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

Indian Evidence Act

The law is mainly based upon the firm work by Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, who could be called the founding father of this comprehensive piece of legislation.

James Pulham and Son

In 1895 the firm was granted a Royal Warrant by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII and some of their work survives at Sandringham House and Buckingham Palace.

John J. Mooney

He retired from Engelhard in 2003, having spent 43 years working for the firm.

John Southerden Burn

In 1854 a new partner, Charles Tayler Ware, joined the firm; in the following year, after Stables's death, Burn retired from practice, and lived at The Grove in Henley-on-Thames.

Jon Bond

The firm became the largest independently held agency in the United States, with clients including BMW, Target, Citi, Capital One, Tommy Hilfiger, Victoria's Secret, Verizon, AT&T, Snapple, and Delta Airlines, among others.

Kannon Shanmugam

He has argued 13 cases before the Supreme Court, tying Edward Bennett Williams for the most by a lawyer in the firm's history.

Käthe Wohlfahrt

The firm moved from Herrenberg to the medieval town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber in 1977.

Kinderhook Industries

In June, 2012, the firm took control of M. Davis Company, Incorporated (doing business as USA Recovery, and Skip Masters), a firm based in El Dorado Hills, California that reprocesses property when owners default on loans.

Luce Memorial Chapel

It was designed by the architect and artist Chen Chi-Kwan in collaboration with the firm of noted architect I. M. Pei, and named in honor of the Rev. Henry W. Luce, an American missionary in China in the late 19th century and father of publisher Henry Luce.

Magnusson Klemencic Associates

However, in the early 1980s partner Leslie E. Robertson split the New York City office from the firm to become Leslie E. Robertson Associates.

Military Professional Resources Inc.

General William F. Kernan of the U.S. Army also joined the firm after his military service.

Olson Kundig Architects

The firm was awarded the 2009 AIA Architecture Firm Award (as Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects) from the American Institute of Architects.

Pitch TV

In the statement, the firm claimed that the situation was due to "unreasonable steps taken from Lloyds bank which ultimately brought the business to a standstill".

Raymond James Morgan Keegan

During the merger frenzy within regional brokerages of the late 1990s and early 2000s, the firm was sold to Regions Financial Corporation for $789 million.

Robert L. Lieff

Lieff founded the firm in 1972, after seven years as a name partner with Melvin Belli in San Francisco (Belli, Ashe, Ellison, Choulos & Lieff).

Ruder Finn

2005 - Pro bono work done for the UN raised speculation when Kofi Annan's nephew, Kobina, worked as an intern at the firm.

Saga Investment Bank

The firm’s main headquarters is in Akureyri, but the Corporate Finance and Capital Markets sectors are located in Reykjavík.

Sandler O'Neill and Partners

Among them were Herman S. Sandler, Chris Quackenbush, who started the firm’s investment banking practice and Welles Crowther, an equities trader, who saved at least 12 people.

Seaton Iron Works

The Seaton Iron Works were set up in 1762 by the firm of Hicks Spedding & Co., on land leased from Sir James Lowther for ninety-nine years.

Si Siman

The firm obtained copyrights for national country hits including Little Jimmy Dickens' smash "A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed" (1950) and Johnny Mullins' novelty tune "Company's Comin'" (1954).

Sid Laverents

He was employed as a sheet metal worker at Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego, California starting in 1941, and with the exception of military service remained with the firm until 1967, by which time it had become part of Convair.

Southern Belting Company Building

Located on Forsyth Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States, the Garnett Station Building was designed by the firm of Lockwood Greene and Company and completed in 1915.

St Michael's Cemetery, Sheffield

John Francis Bentley designed the three east windows which feature, The Risen Christ, The Blessed Virgin and St John, they were produced by the firm of Lavers, Barraud and Westlake.

Téa Leoni

Her mother, Emily Ann (née Patterson), was a dietician and nutritionist, and her father, Anthony Pantaleoni, was a corporate lawyer of the firm Fulbright & Jaworski.

Tim Willoughby

Having left Goldman Sachs in late 2007, Willoughby was due to start work at the firm of Citi Smith Barney on 10 January 2008, but died suddenly on 9 January 2008 after suffering a heart attack on board a flight from the United States to Singapore, returning home from a family holiday in New Mexico.

Topf and Sons

After 1939, and the demonstration or "proof of concept" that the firm could design an incinerator which would handle large numbers of corpses, Nazi officials further contracted Topf and Sons to provide similar incineration furnaces for the Belzec, Dachau, Mauthausen, Gusen Concentration Camps, and larger industrial incinerators especcialy designed for Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

Virginia Littell

Littell has since worked as a business consultant, partnering in the firm of Brazer & Littell with Georgene Brazer, Republican municipal chairwoman of Tewksbury Township, New Jersey.

Wedgwood

Josiah Wedgwood III (1795–1880), son of Josiah II, was a partner in the firm from 1825 until he retired in 1842.

Josiah Wedgwood V (1899–1968), grandson of Clement Wedgwood and son of Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood, was managing director of the firm from 1930 until 1968 and credited with turning the company's fortunes around.

Wilhelm Pelikan

Biodynamic gardener Franz Lippert, Wilhelm Pelikan started to develop a medicinal herb garden on the firm's grounds and later in Wetzgau a plateau above Schwäbisch Gmünd.