Profiles

Activision Blizzard's Chief Legal Officer Was Not an Avid Gamer

The Recorder

Christopher Walther, the chief legal officer of Activision Blizzard, admits that before he joined the company from Proctor & Gamble, he wasn't an avid gamer. However, he does have attorneys and paralegals whose job it is to play games during the workday, in order to work on IP rights issues.
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Lawyer-Writers Explore Their Creative Interests

Fulton County Daily Report

Novelist David Fulmer says the fiction writing class he has taught in Decatur, Ga., for the past four years has drawn all types of people, but one group stands out: lawyers. "I never went looking for lawyers, but I've had at least one attorney in almost every class," says Fulmer. "If you have the creative gene -- whatever it is, a germ perhaps -- eventually you have to address it," says civil litigator Cynthia L. Tolbert, one of the lawyers who has taken Fulmer's class.
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Small-Town Injustice Sparked Texas Judge's Career Choice

Texas Lawyer

As a child in a small Texas town, Judge Gracie Lewis heard about a white man who killed an African-American man who was dating his daughter. The man went unpunished. "And that sparked the desire in my heart to be an attorney," says Lewis, now judge of Dallas Criminal District Court No. 3.
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'Recovering Lawyer' From Skadden Finds Niche in Winemaking

The Connecticut Law Tribune

Former Skadden Arps attorney Michael Connery bought a 108-acre Connecticut property in 2001, complete with a World War II-era airplane hangar, "without a clear idea of what to do with it," he says. Now the self-described "recovering attorney" is running the thriving Saltwater Farm Vineyard.
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Attorney Gets Back Into the World of Competitive Backgammon

The Connecticut Law Tribune

Attorney Marcy Kossar has started playing competitive backgammon again after breaking away from the game for almost 20 years. Her tournament circuit brings her in touch with people from all walks of life, and her online playing got her reconnected with an old law school classmate.
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