Q: What is it that draws you to bet-the-company work?
A: I like the variety, and I’ve had some
success in it. My background in science
and math, which requires a certain amount
of logic and organization to understand
it, probably carries over into liking the
complexities of a large case, where you
need a large cast of professionals working
on the various aspects, and then you need
to pull it all together.
Q: Is it intimidating to sit down at the
start of a case and see all the documents
you have to go through and all the facts
you have to organize?
A: Early on, of course, before we had
computerization, it was a little more
intimidating than it is now. You’d walk into
a storage room that looked like a football
field full of banker boxes. You thought,
“Hmm, I wonder which aisle I’ll start in?”
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