IRVINE - When Bradley W. Blank was helping TRI Pointe Homes acquire a real estate
subsidiary of global Weyerhaeuser Co. as part of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP's legal
team, he never assumed he'd be asked to be general counsel for the newly combined
company.
But after the deal was signed, TRI Pointe asked Blank to serve as its first in-house
counsel. It took Blank a couple of weeks to consider the offer. In that tim... (continued)