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Lawdragon's 100 Managing Partners You Need to Know
 
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Biography
Title: Managing Partner
Firm: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Law School: Harvard
Graduation: 1981
Year you became MP: 2007
List: Lawdragon's 100 Managing Partners You Need to Know
 
Firm practice group (if any) you belong to:
Business and corporate
 
Percentage of time you spend on management vs. practicing law:
99/1
 
More Info
Best moment of career:
When, following a personal tragedy, the lawyers and staff took over my busy practice, and I realized that I didn't have to worry an iota about it until I was ready to.
 
Worst moment of career:
When an aircraft financing closing call was interrupted with the news that we were bombing Iraq, which would shutter that practice indefinitely.
 
Attorney you most admire:
Mike Schmeer
 
Favorite activities (besides the Law):
Flyfishing, Theater, Cooking, Traveling with my kids
 
What is your proudest accomplishment on behalf of your firm:
Helping mentor a number of younger lawyers to partnership and performance far exceeding my own.
 
If there is one thing you could do over as managing partner/chairperson, what is it?
Too early to tell.
 
Is there anything - an individual, a double espresso, a good 4:30 a.m. workout - you consider essential to your success?
Routine exercise, and quiet time to think.
 


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