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It's not just the history-making accomplishments of The American Lawyer's lifetime achievers that stand out. These seven men and one woman have done incredible work for their clients: winning a landmark antitrust verdict for the National Football League, brokering a deal between Big Tobacco and 46 states and helping DuPont rake in almost $1 billion in settlement awards. And they have served the greater good, too: crafting civil rights legislation, persuading Lyndon Johnson to scale back the bombing of North Vietnam and putting the Whitewater scandal, finally, to rest.
Looking at their careers, what also stands out is the length of their public and private service. At 77, Davis Polk & Wardwell's Bob Fiske continues to represent clients (including Siemens and ABN AMRO). Seventy-nine year-olds Harry McPherson and Berl Bernhard still work out of DLA Piper's Washington, D.C., office. At 91, Covington & Burling's Jim McKay devotes his practice now almost entirely to pro bono. For these lawyers, service to clients and causes is much more than a job; it's a way of life.
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz's Howard Baker
Rieck Kaley & Mack's John Doar
Davis Polk & Wardwell's Robert Fiske Jr.
Covington & Burling's Jim McKay
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.'s Stacey Mobley
