Profiles

Attorney Uses Yoga to Help Troubled Youth

Daily Report

Robert Altman, a litigator and co-founder of Grounded for Good, a nonprofit that offers yoga and mindfulness training to at-risk youth, has been on the path of helping people for some time. Early in his career he represented Native Americans following the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee. Now semi-retired, he devotes much of his energy to volunteer work.
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Young Litigator Pushes the Limits in Her Private Time

Daily Report

Although not unique in pursuing after-hours excitement, Greenberg Traurig of counsel Sara Thompson intentionally seeks challenges outside of her usual comfort zone, like a four-day mountain hike in New Zealand and playing serious poker. The activities allow her to engage her competitive side: "You underestimate me at your own peril," she warns.
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Guatemala Mission Bolsters Ga. Lawyer's Advocacy for Children

Daily Report

One of Georgia's foremost advocates for children has returned from a nearly three-year mission in Guatemala strengthened in his resolve to work on behalf of children. A former head of the oversight agency for Georgia's child protection system, Tom Rawlings had moved with his family to Guatemala City to work for a human rights organization.
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Brooklyn Dean Campaigns for Graduate Employment

New York Law Journal

Nicholas Allard, appointed dean of Brooklyn Law School in July after spending seven years at Patton Boggs, where he co-chaired the firm's public policy department and government advocacy practice, says he considers student employment a top priority and will use his professional connections to create opportunities for students.
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Lawyer Skilled as Chef Shares His Love of Fine Dining

Daily Report

Douglas Powell is a law firm partner who received a culinary degree and interned at a restaurant all while working full time as a trial lawyer -- and loving every minute of it. The "Table One" dinners that he regularly offers at his home provide good conversation amid carefully curated fine dining, wine, flowers and musical performances.
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Child Murder Case Pushes Miami Prosecutor to Become Judge

Daily Business Review

Monica Gordo knew she wanted to be a lawyer since she was a little girl but she wasn't "bitten by the trial bug" until she interned in the state attorney's office. She discovered she wanted to be a judge after prosecuting the case of a girl killed by gunfire as she played in her front yard. Gordo credits her parents for instilling in her a desire to "find something I had a passion for."
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Leap From Broadcast News to Big Law Proves a Happy Fit

The Am Law Daily

Before embarking on a midlife career switch eight years ago, Wilson Elser litigator Valeri Williams spent 20 years as a TV news reporter. She says that in both fields, "I take facts and I put them together in a cogent story, and then I tell those facts." She talked to The Am Law Daily about her career transition and her current path.
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Attorney Finds Rhythm and Focus in Climbing and Sculpting

Daily Report

Kilpatrick Stockton IP partner Jim Ewing spends most of his time these days in the firm's Silicon Valley office working in the medical devices field. But he has a dormant passion in mountain climbing and also makes time for making beautiful things out of pieces of stone. Ewing talked to the Daily Report about the rhythm and focus he has discovered in high places and art.
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Former Bankruptcy Lawyer Opens Superhero-Themed Karaoke Bar

The Connecticut Law Tribune

Finding his Big Law bankruptcy practice to be enjoyable but not his passion, Andrew Lebwohl left the firm to get an MBA at Yale and now has opened a bar in New Haven, Conn., that blends two of his favorite things -- karaoke and superheroes. Karaoke Heroes is "a nightlife option to make you feel good about yourself," he says.
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