Legal Landmarks Guided Tours
Explore the legal capital of the world with an expert guide, native New Yorker, and former Big Law summer associate
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Designed with a firsthand understanding of life as a lawyer, Professional New Yorker tours always deliver the excellence, creativity, and client focus that elite law firms expect
Meet your guide: Sam Furnival
A native New Yorker and lifelong learner, Sam Furnival has always been mesmerized by this magnificent metropolis. He is a proud graduate of NYC public schools, Wesleyan University, and Harvard Law School.
At Harvard, he graduated with honors, lampooned the law school as a writer for the HLS Parody and helped a renowned professor design a new course from scratch. He summered at the New York City Law Department and at the New York and Rome offices of a top law firm.
Following a federal clerkship, Sam left the practice of law after realizing that his favorite part of the workday was his walk to and from the office.¹
Sam’s tours delight and fascinate first time visitors and lifelong residents alike. He is recognized as a “Starred Guide” by the City of New York for his exceptional score on the sightseeing guide examination (147 out of 150).
¹ Lawyers also tended to delete his best footnote jokes so he needed to find a more amenable forum for his humorous asides.
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Downtown’s Law & Disorder
Follow in the footsteps of Lower Manhattan’s lawmakers and law breakers
From the Founding Father’s constitutional debates to the Five Families’ RICO prosecutions, the winding streets of downtown New York have always been center stage for America’s greatest legal dramas — both on and off the screen.
For four centuries, Lower Manhattan’s lawyers have been leading players in establishing our nation’s core legal traditions.
Fortunately for these hardworking attorneys, they’ve been kept in business by the city’s equally resourceful criminals, who break new ground while breaking the law.
Head downtown and explore:
Visit the birthplace of the Bill of Rights and the gravesite of New York’s first bar-prep guru
Gawk at the skyscraper New Yorkers hated so much they created the city’s first zoning code
Marvel at how a single overlooked clause in a corporate charter gave New York its most prominent bank and its most infamous slum
Distance👞: ~3,000 Steps
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Law & Disorder in Downtown New York
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Art Law at the Metropolitan Museum
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The Hidden History of Hudson Yards
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Art Law at the Met
Justice may be blind, but the Met has more than meets the eye
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the preeminent art museum in the Western Hemisphere thanks to the ambition and drive of some of Gilded Age New York’s leading lawyers (and their art-loving clients).
Nearly as astounding as the art on display are the stories of how the museum came to own its myriad masterpieces — and the scandalous instances when the Met has had to give them back.
In the Met’s magnificent galleries, we’ll chart the connections between works of art that are separated by centuries and continents but united by genius, beauty, and property law.
Ascend the Met’s iconic steps and discover:
How a bout of appendicitis turned an aspiring lawyer into one of the 20th century’s greatest painters
Why a United Nations Convention opened the Met’s most beloved gallery before a class action lawsuit renamed it
How Kim Kardashian helped the Manhattan District Attorney recover a priceless masterpiece
Distance👞: ~3,000 Steps
The Hidden History of Hudson Yards
Unearth the secrets of New York’s newest neighborhood
A city within a city, Hudson Yards is the largest private real estate development in American history. With only half the site developed, it already boasts more office space than all of downtown Phoenix.
But there's a mystery lurking beneath these ultramodern towers: on an island where every square foot has been fought over for four centuries, why did 28 acres of prime riverfront sit undeveloped until 2019?
The answer involves railroad barons, thwarted Olympic dreams, and some of the most creative legal engineering in New York history.
Above the West Side Yards we’ll uncover:
The heroic feats of architecture and engineering that created the 20th-century rail yards—and the 21st-century neighborhood floating above them
How public and private forces converged to build the Hudson Yards we see today, rather than the many doomed alternatives
Why billions of dollars in construction costs can't quite buy neighborhood charm
Distance👞: ~3,000 Steps
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