American Lawyer chief European correspondent Chris Johnson meets regularly with senior figures in the legal world at their favorite breakfast joints to chew over the industry’s tastiest talking points. Johnson’s guest this week is the former mayor of New York City, Bracewell & Giuliani’s Rudy Giuliani. On the menu: fracking, future presidential ambitions, and some ridiculously expensive eggs.
I admit to approaching this week’s “Continental Breakfast” with a mixture of excitement and apprehension. As the former mayor of the city of New York, Rudolph “Rudy” Giuliani remains one of America’s most widely known public figures, and is almost certainly the highest-profile individual I’ve featured—or am ever likely to feature—in this column. His leadership in the aftermath of the devastating 9/11 terror attacks saw him dubbed “America’s Mayor” by Oprah Winfrey, and led to him being named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year in 2001, and knighted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace the following year. He’s even hosted Saturday Night Live and appeared in an episode of Seinfeld.
