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Law Practice

Aug. 4, 2021

What Simone Biles can teach us lawyers

Over 20 years ago, during a business trip to Los Angeles, an old law school friend managed to sneak in an hour for dinner with me. He worked at Wall Street firm, a rarefied place that collected law review editors and paid them multiples of what I made in my solo law practice.

Anthony J. Mohr

Judge (ret.)
Los Angeles County Superior Court

Judge Mohr currently is a fellow at the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard.

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Over 20 years ago, during a business trip to Los Angeles, an old law school friend managed to sneak in an hour for dinner with me. He worked at Wall Street firm, a rarefied place that collected law review editors and paid them multiples of what I made in my solo law practice.

Between the golden beet salad and the filet mignon, he described his chances of making partner. "I've got the hours," he said.

He was stumb...

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