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Lawdragon's 100 Managing Partners You Need to Know
 
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Biography
Title: Chairman and Global Managing Partner
Firm: K&L Gates
Law School: Yale Law School
Graduation: 1978
Year you became MP: 1997
List: Lawdragon's 100 Managing Partners You Need to Know
 
Firm practice group (if any) you belong to:
Insurance Coverage
 
Percentage of time you spend on management vs. practicing law:
100%
 
More Info
Best moment of career:
The decision to join the Kirkpatrick firm in 1980
 
Worst moment of career:
Nothing comes to mind
 
Attorney you most admire:
Charles J. Queenan, Jr.
 
Favorite activities (besides the Law):
Spending time with my family
 
Favorite Sports Team (if you have one), or Favorite Theater or Museum, etc:
Anything in black and gold: Steelers, Penguins, Pirates
 
What is your proudest accomplishment on behalf of your firm:
Overseeing a decade of debt-free growth
 
If there is one thing you could do over as managing partner/chairperson, what is it?
I've learned from my mistakes, so I wouldn't want to do anything over
 
Is there anything - an individual, a double espresso, a good 4:30 a.m. workout - you consider essential to your success?
It's a mindset -- running a marathon at the pace of a sprint
 


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