Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, commonly known as Davis Polk, is a white-shoe, international law firm headquartered in New York City with offices in Washington, D.C., Palo Alto, London, Madrid, Brussels, Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo, and São Paulo. The firm maintains an all-equity partnership, with profits per partner of over $7 million. It is the third most profitable law firm in the world.
At the offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York, New York.
John William Davis was an American politician, diplomat and lawyer. He served under President Woodrow Wilson as the Solicitor General of the United States and the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He was the Democratic nominee for president in 1924, losing to Republican incumbent Calvin Coolidge.
Davis, c. 1920–1924
Davis during the period in which he served in Congress
Ellen G. Bassel (Philip Alexius de Laszlo, 1920)
Davis (right) and Secretary of State Robert Lansing in 1917