Being Still, Avoiding Deal Killers, and Late Nights in the Office

I can’t go a day without … Diet Coke.

If you were in my office, you’d … notice that we always have candy stocked.

My colleagues would be surprised to know that … I still favor old-school telephonic conference calls to Microsoft Teams or Zoom meetings.

When I was a newbie lawyer I … accidentally got locked in the stairwell of my office building on a Friday night at 11:00 p.m.

The lawyer I most admire is … my mentor, Gary Zwillinger, who passed away in 2016.

The qualities I most like in a lawyer are … I like to work with lawyers who are intelligent, fair and able to think outside the box to find compromise and solutions. Nobody likes a deal killer!

When I started, I wish I knew … how to establish and uphold boundaries.

If I weren’t a lawyer, I’d be … a puppy wrangler.

My real-life hero is … my mom.

On weekends I … watch a lot of youth sports—my teenage daughters play travel club soccer and compete in Level 10 gymnastics, respectively.

The talent I wish I had is … cooking without a recipe.

My favorite song lyric is … “The world’s just spinning a little too fast/If things don’t slow down soon, we might not last/So just for a moment, let’s be still” by The Head and the Heart.

My favorite podcast is … a tie between We Can Do Hard Things and Morbid.

The last TV show I binge-watched was … Ted Lasso—it’s fantastic!

Nothing cheers me up like … seeing my kids succeed at something they have worked hard to achieve.

My guilty pleasure is … watching documentary-style medical TV shows like My 600-lb Life. (I know, weird.)

My least-favorite word is … laundry.

If I won the lottery I’d … move my family to a beach house on Coronado Island.

The question I wish people would stop asking is … “What’s for dinner?”