While a few formal partnership documents are included, the bulk of the materials in this series are memos and correspondence by office staff as well as attorneys, that pertain to the business and finances and management of running a law firm. Unusually lively and personal for these types of documents, they also offer a window into the tensions as well as the rewards of working for a firm whose cases pursued equity and democracy and translating those principles into a workplace that reflected them without compromising efficiency and good management. "1440 Broadway" refers to the street address of the office building in Oakland, California, where many of these law firms were located, as well as the offices of progressive organizations and other radical attorneys over more than three decades.
