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Lawdragon's 100 Managing Partners You Need to Know
 
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Biography
Title: Chairman and Managing Partner
Firm: Latham & Watkins
Law School: University of Illinois College of Law
Graduation: 1977
Year you became MP: 1994
List: Lawdragon's 100 Managing Partners You Need to Know
 
Firm practice group (if any) you belong to:
Litigation
 
Percentage of time you spend on management vs. practicing law:
100% management
 
More Info
Best moment of career:
Being elected Chairman
 
Worst moment of career:
Nearly losing an uncontested motion as a first year associate.
 
Attorney you most admire:
Way too many of my partners to choose just one. (Isn't that the only politically correct response?)
 
Favorite activities (besides the Law):
Playing classical guitar, hiking and golf.
 
Favorite Sports Team (if you have one), or Favorite Theater or Museum, etc:
Chicago Bulls during the Michael Jordan years.
 
What is your proudest accomplishment on behalf of your firm:
Leading our partners to a strong consensus to build a global law firm.
 
If there is one thing you could do over as managing partner/chairperson, what is it?
I would have opened our Silicon Valley office earlier than we did.
 
Is there anything - an individual, a double espresso, a good 4:30 a.m. workout - you consider essential to your success?
Highly supportive and supremely talented partners working with me toward common goals.
 


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