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Q&A With J. Michael Cooney
Dinsmore & Shohl’s J. Michael Cooney on the yin and yang of estate lawWhat drew you to the law? Boy, that’s a good question. I don’t know the answer. I grew up in a small town and lawyers seemed to be persons of interest in the community. That’s probably what originally drew me to it, I suspect. What would you have done if you hadn’t become a lawyer? I probably would have been a professor of history. What kind of history would you have taught? I was principally interested in American history from the 19th and 20th century. How did you …
Q&A With James M. Sturdivant
James M. Sturdivant looks back on almost 50 years with GableGotwals and the $5,000 verdict that remains his favorite caseWhat drew you to the law? When I was in undergraduate school at the University of Oklahoma, I became friends with the son of the dean of the law school there, Earl Sneed, who was a great educator, and he was the spark that lit my fire to be a lawyer. My father was a minister and I didn’t know anything about lawyers but what I’d heard and seen from a distance. But Dean Sneed inspired me and I applied, got in and that was in 1961. And if you hadn’t become a lawyer, would you have …
Q&A With R. Lawrence Ward
Larry Ward of Polsinelli Shughart tells the story of his escape from a career in accounting and how he discovered the joy of business litigation.What drew you to the law? I graduated with a degree in accounting and I knew it was going to be terribly boring, so I wanted something with more action. So what would you have done if you hadn’t become a lawyer and you stayed away from accounting? I probably would have become a bartender in Kansas City, Kan. What led you to business litigation? Was it the background in accounting? Good lord no. After about eight to 10 years of trying personal injury cases, I got bored with that. …
Q&A with Richard F. Griffin
Richard Griffin traces his evolution from pit bull to mediator and remembers Malcolm XSuper Lawyers: What drew you to the law? Richard F. Griffin: Two lawyers that were in the family, and I was very impressed with their work and their seeming grasp of things that were important. Also, I had done a lot of debating and political work in undergraduate school and high school. What would you have done if you hadn’t become a lawyer? Never thought about it. I didn’t have an alternative. People have called you Upstate’s “King of Mediation.” Well, that’s …
Q&A: David Noonan on The Value of Listening
At Kirby Noonan Lance & Hoge, David J. Noonan handles commercial and business matters for both plaintiffs and defendants. Super Lawyers: What drew you to the law? David Noonan: There were no lawyers in my family, so I can't blame genetics. It probably started as an outgrowth of my academic interest in history. My major in college was British history—development of the common law, the trial of Sir Thomas More against charges of treason and the like—and that sparked my interest in …
Hoosier Hall of Famer
If basketball is religion in Indiana, Peter Obremskey must be a cardinal. The Indiana Basketball Hall of Famer and Indianapolis trial lawyer was one of Branch McCracken’s Hurryin’ Hoosiers, helping the team take the Big 10 cochampionship in 1957. The next year — as team captain, No. 2 scorer and rebounder — he led the team back to a Big 10 championship they didn’t have to share. Obremskey, 69, didn’t play much basketball until his family moved from New York City to Indiana …
Soul Man
Dan Rabinovitz performs in court by day and with rock ’n’ soul legends by nightAt the tender age of 40, Dan Rabinovitz, a business and commercial litigator at Menard, Murphy & Walsh, can already look back on an amazing career as a professional musician. He’s played trumpet for such legendary blues and soul pioneers as Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Solomon Burke; the late, great Son Seals; and former Muddy Waters guitarist Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson. Not bad for someone whose first instrument was a dusty old English hunting horn. When Rabinovitz was 5, he …
The Legal Guitarist
Life is just a song for Doc SchneiderDon’t make Richard “Doc” Schneider choose between writing songs and writing briefs. According to Schneider, each discipline depends on the other. “I try to be fully engaged with the law practice but also fully engaged in life, and doing both helps the other,” he says. Schneider, who was branded “Doc” while at the U.S. Naval Preparatory School because of his training as a hospital corpsman, has been a “serious lawyer” at King & Spalding since he joined the firm fresh …
And the Oscar Goes to...
Lawyer and thespian Tom Kline for his outstanding performance in the courtroom and on stageTom Kline, the Marlon Brando of the courtroom, follows a method of his own when he’s in front of a jury. He dons his costume, one of his trademark black, stylish suits and, like any top performer, he never misjudges his audience. “You can’t underestimate the intelligence of the juror,” Kline says. “But at the same time, you have to present the material in a fashion that can be readily absorbed and grasped.” The Kline Show is so good that one judge who saw him in front of a jury felt …
The Many Hats of Mr. Hill
James is every mother’s fondest dream — a doctor and a lawyerJames Hill had thought about becoming a doctor as far back as elementary school. But in high school he turned to music, playing drums in rock bands around his hometown of San Gabriel. One of his projects, a hard-rock cover band called The Commie Plot, played in a 1977 “Battle of the Bands” competition featuring Van Halen. “But we weren’t battling against them,” Hill is quick to add. “They were just the headliners and we amateur bands were just amongst them. This is before they …
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