FOOD FUNDA: Tweed Sport Coat

Friday 27 July 2012

Tweed Sport Coat

Although a New York City lawyer with Chutzpah, in court Gould would sometimes wear a tweed sports coat with patches and usually had a professorial manner relying on his cross-examination skills. Taking a lesson from Kaufman he would end the trial day by going home to dinner leaving his assisting attorneys to work up the examination for the next day.In 1964, Gould led his law firm into a merger with the firm of his former high school classmate WILLIAM SHEA a politically powerful lawyer who brought the New York Mets and Shea Stadium to New York. The firm would become shea & gould, a very successful law firm that grew to 350 lawyers.

In 1979 Gould published "The Witness Who Spoke With God and Other Tales From The Courthouse" (Viking, 1979), a book of a collection of his stories which had previously appeared in the New York Law Journal.