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Lawdragon's 100 Managing Partners You Need to Know
 
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Biography
Title: Chairman and Managing Partner
Firm: Thompson & Knight LLP
Law School: SMU Dedman School of Law
Graduation: 1981
Year you became MP: 2001
List: Lawdragon's 100 Managing Partners You Need to Know
 
Firm practice group (if any) you belong to:
Corporate Reorganization and Creditors' Rights
 
Percentage of time you spend on management vs. practicing law:
100%
 
More Info
Best moment of career:
Having 100% of our partners voting in favor of opening an office in Algeria -- at that point I knew that we had complete alignment with the vision.
 
Worst moment of career:
Moments. The 1990's when a number of our key partners left to open offices for other firms. Our Firm was hurt emotionally and economically.
 
Attorney you most admire:
Harold Kleinman, MP of T&K from 1975 to 1987. Harold embodied the values that have allowed our Firm to succeed for 120 years - generations.
 
Favorite activities (besides the Law):
Golf, reading about leadership and history.
 


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