Archive for June, 2016
An Election, Another Explosion When Nixon was elected in November of 1968, things really began to heat up at Gadsby & Hannah. Colson’s work on Nixon’s behalf had been very much appreciated by Nixon (even if it wasn’t by some of his men), and the opportunities for recompense at the firm were going to be […]
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Tags: boston stock exchange, charles colson, dresdner bank, james treadway, john volpe, joseph tauro, richard nixon
Both Sides of the Aisle
Gadsby & Hannah Goes Bi-partisan It became apparent by the mid-sixties that Gadsby, Hannah, Colson & Morin was “too Republican.” Several of their clients, including Grumman’s Lew Evans, told them they should get a high-profile Democrat in the firm. It turned out that, at that very moment, Lynch’s pal Dick McGuire was looking for a […]
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Tags: charles morin, dick mcguire, fidelity investments, george smathers, James Saxon, Tip O'Neill, Wilfred Godfrey
Growing Pains
While Morin was pulling pranks on Colson, he was also exceedingly busy with high-powered lawyering. By the mid-1960’s, Federated’s problems with the SEC were an almost constant source of work for Morin and his principal litigation partner, Joe Mitchell. His relationship with Federated, and in particular Jack Donahue and his senior team, Dick Fisher, John […]
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Tags: chuck colson, jack donahue, john volpe, joseph mitchell, joseph tauro
The Secretary and the Postmaster
Morin’s frenetic work pace did not distract him from preserving the office culture of well-planned pranks. He occasionally targeted another foil for his carbon trick: Colson himself. On one of these occasions, he ensnared an unintentional victim. In January of 1967, Maine Congressman Stan Tupper was newly retired from Congress, looking for a law firm to […]
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Tags: charles colson, hannah campbell, stan tupper
The Boston Stock Exchange
Morin wasted no time in developing a niche securities practice that brought him and the firm significant success. It began inconspicuously enough in the relatively small-time world of the Boston Stock Exchange, where small regional securities firms fought for a small number of small-issue public offerings that small New England companies could not afford to […]
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Tags: boston stock exchange, cantella & company, Freddie Moss, Jim Dowd, regulation d, SEC
