Cravath Lawyer Turned Writer Reflects on Career Telling Stories

Around the time Alan Hruska turned 68, having already spent four decades as a trial lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, he decided to retire, or put more accurately — to change careers.

On a whim, he had attended Yale Law School in the late 1950s, a decision that set him on a career path in law that entailed mentoring a young David Boies and representing Time, Inc. and CBS — all of which only nurtured his ambition to tell a good story.

So in 2001, after Cravath changed his designation from partner to senior counsel, Hruska called himself retired from the law and set his hand writing a novel ...