At Dickstein, Being a ‘One Stop’ Shop Worked, Until it Didn’t

Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series on Dickstein Shapiro. Read Part I here .

It was 1973 and Dickstein Shapiro was riding its first real wave of growth.

Richard Nixon was in the White House. Literally just blocks away, his onetime counsel and confidante Charles Colson worked at Dickstein Shapiro, in the modern building that served as its headquarters. In a nod to Colson’s importance at the firm, it had changed its name to Colson & Shapiro.

Bringing him onboard would prove an inauspicious attempt to grow the firm’s profile.

Soon after joining the firm, Colson found himself entangled in the Watergate criminal ...