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Lawdragon's 100 Managing Partners You Need to Know
 
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Biography
Title: Co-Managing Partner
Firm: WilmerHale
Law School: Cornell University Law School
Graduation: 1976
Year you became MP: 2000
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:
35% management; 65% practice
 
More Info
Best moment of career:
When I watched one of my young partners do a cross examination and I realized he was going to be and had become a superstar.
 
Worst moment of career:
When the Federal Circuit reversed in the Amgen case, the first major biotechnology case tried in the United States, and we lost.
 
Attorney you most admire:
James D. St. Clair
 
Favorite activities (besides the Law):
Running, soccer and hanging out with my young adult children.
 
Favorite Sports Team (if you have one), or Favorite Theater or Museum, etc:
Boston Red Sox
 
What is your proudest accomplishment on behalf of your firm:
The merger of Wilmer Cutler Pickering LLP and Hale and Dorr LLP
 
If there is one thing you could do over as managing partner/chairperson, what is it?
I would have expanded more cautiously during the fever of the technology boom at the end of the 1990s.
 
Is there anything - an individual, a double espresso, a good 4:30 a.m. workout - you consider essential to your success?
My run at 5 a.m. in the morning and my wife, who is a saint.
 


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