The politician tried to hide his white-shoe background.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : white-shoe bankers; a conservative white-shoe image.    From Dictionary.com. 

But Spencer Gutman is a real white-shoe operation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Running Blind]

If Zaidi is smart, he'll hold out for a white-shoe firm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lame Duck, Duck!] Reference

Jon Corzine never had the stiff reputation of a white-shoe banker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overheard: Penny Pinching] Reference

It is also a potential embarrassment for the white-shoe law firm Stroock.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Developer Must Refund Deposits to Luxury-Condo Buyers] Reference

I wonder how the white-shoe firms felt about missing out on this one...acesQuote.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Judicial Law Clerk Without a Law Degree] Reference

The white-shoe Ivy Leaguers don't seem to have come to terms Goldstein's success.    From Wordnik.com.  [requiem for a meme] Reference

Bradley's most generous law-firm supporters: two white-shoe powerhouses in Chicago.    From Wordnik.com.  [A War Over Who Controls The Left] Reference

Perhaps the most notable new law firm reader is white-shoe law firm Arnold & Porter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Peter Rost: Am I Crazy Paranoid . . . ?] Reference

Alston & Bird, the white-shoe law firm that took in Mr. Daschle, is a lobbying shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Daschle's Washington] Reference

Maybe I am a bit overoptimistic to envision some white-shoe executive doing hard time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to the Editor] Reference

Hamdan, after all, was far from the hapless chauffeur his white-shoe lawyers portrayed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hamdan Validation] Reference

But you can't fool a dogwood – so once they're blooming it is officially white-shoe season.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bees In My Easter Bonnet] Reference

Not everyone who graduates from law school is cut out for work at a white-shoe corporate firm.    From Wordnik.com.  [10 Hilariously Awful Lawyer Commercials] Reference

His father F.A.O. Schwarz was a senior partner at Davis, Polk & Wardwell, the white-shoe law firm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Schwab Shells Out for U.S. Trust] Reference

I was quite disappointed that Goldman Sachs was infrequently referred to just as a white-shoe firm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Duff McDonald: Hank Paulson, Colored by Numbers] Reference

And although he would be welcomed at any white-shoe law firm, Baker doesn't have an office to fall back on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rick Baker for Attorney General?] Reference

At one time, Goldman was a white-shoe investment bank that made its mark advising corporate clients on deals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buffett Drove Hard Bargain With Goldman] Reference

But aside from goosing the billable hours at white-shoe law firms, it's hard to see how that would do anyone any good.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Class-Action Scheme] Reference

The Kuwaiti government hired the white-shoe firm Sherman and Sterling to represent the Kuwaiti nationals in Camp X-Ray.    From Wordnik.com.  [And Justice for All-Even 'the Worst of the Worst'] Reference

The Meaning of Morgan Stanley The crisis marks a dramatic comedown for a white-shoe firm with a storied Wall Street past.    From Wordnik.com.  [At Morgan Stanley, Outlook Darkens; Stock Tumbles 26%] Reference

Fred "Baron" von Lohmann is a lawyer at the EFF and a former IP hotshot attorney at white-shoe lawfirm Morrison Foerster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: November 4, 2001 - November 10, 2001 Archives] Reference

Investors and clients questioned whether the marriage of retail-banking behemoth Bank of America and white-shoe private bank U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Other Women to Watch] Reference

And you seem to have the same attitude: that even if you lose, you can return to white-shoe lawyering and everything will be alright.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dear Bill Foster] Reference

Ms. Gillibrand, who went to Dartmouth and spent years working in a white-shoe corporate law firm in Manhattan, affects a homespun air.    From Wordnik.com.  [PolitickerNY: Gillibrand Tour: Get Used To Me--I'm Your Senator] Reference

The speculation so far: the junior leaguers liked the attention and were consensual partners -- white-shoe lingo for 'they wanted it.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lea Goldman: When the Boss is a Letch] Reference

Although he ultimately ran one of the world's most prestigious white-shoe financial firms, Sir Dennis came from far more humble roots.    From Wordnik.com.  [J.P. Morgan's Former Chief Executive] Reference

Even after she went back into the private sector to work as a lawyer at a white-shoe firm, the public sector was never far from her mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kirsten Gillibrand, Like Chuck Schumer With Connections] Reference

When it comes to white-shoe, old-money banking, Brown Brothers Harriman and Co. could give Mortimer and Randolph Duke a run for their money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Safeguarding Your Money] Reference

"And I'm not sure which are my pro bono criminal clients and which are the white-shoe folks we wine and dine at the Downtown Athletic Club.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mistress of Justice]

Muslims pray daily in State Department hallways, in white-shoe corporate law firms and in empty boardrooms at Silicon Valley companies like Oracle and Adaptec.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Islam] Reference

Last month in a large conference room at a white-shoe law firm in New York, a group of power brokers gathered to bail out bankrupt auto-parts maker Delphi Corp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Private Equity’s Bog] Reference

With an eye toward joining a bid for the property, the tenants group has lined up some big names as advisers, including white-shoe law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back to School for Failing Mall] Reference

Nickles could have engaged Inspector General Charles Willoughby or, as is the fashion these days, turned to one of his many friends in the District's white-shoe legal community.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside the 'Nickles Report' on juvenile justice] Reference

A Manhattan attorney who serves as special counsel to several white-shoe law firms has used Day's insights to help her select juries and anticipate the opposing team's arguments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The $10,000-a-Month Psychic] Reference