Puccio, the man who once said that he could indict a ham sandwich (the real issue, he says, is can you convict one?), said, "I'd had enough of being a prosecutor". He joined the Park Avenue law firm of Booth, Lipton & Lipton to which he had been introduced by his friend Mario Cuomo, who was then New York's lieutenant-governor.
"The Cutting Edge of Free Speech Litigation" reads one of the signs at the firm's booth.
Granted, the family-owned firm of Booths has only 29 branches across the northwest, compared to, say, Tesco's 2,500-plus nationwide, or Sainsbury's 950.
"When I started, I didn't have children," said Nicholas S. Leahy, a principal in the Perkins Eastman architectural firm, which designed the booth and the bleachers that will rise above it, based on the Australians' winning concept.
The firm's two-story booth included a display of iMacs running iTunes, but the promised phones were naught.
So secret, in fact, that executives in the firm's 7,000-square-foot 7,000-square-foot 7,000-square-footre bringing it out of hiding and allowing a photographer to snap.
Texas-based Hatco, a major vendor of hats also represented in its booth the firm of' Stetson one of the most revered hatters in the world, producing headwear (albeit with a Western flavor) since 1865.
McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group were the top two hiring firms last year at Chicago Booth, Columbia, Kellogg, MIT Sloan and Wharton (see "A Resurgent M.B.A. Jobs Market").
The Vosganian firm also designed the new booths at exit 18W near the Meadowlands.
After the event — Once the event has ended, the outsourced firm will dismantle onsite exhibits and booths and will also categorize and store select exhibit structures and signage.
