If Stuart Singer had been a better golfer, he might not be in the law.

“My two main activities outside of class in high school were I was on the debate team and on the golf team,” he said. “And I soon realized I was a very mediocre golfer on a mediocre golf team and debate offered more possibilities.”

Debate led the Miami native to Northwestern University and later to Harvard Law. It also indirectly connected him with Boies Schiller Flexner, the law firm he's been at for the past 17 years.