Greenberg Traurig shareholder Drew Altman knows one surefire way to get his mind off work: Strap into his Porsche Cayman S and floor it. $4.9 billion merger $2.8 billion deal $609 million stock sale "You're frankly accustomed to driving a car in rather sedate conditions," Altman said. "Maybe the worst thing that happens is you stomp on your brakes because somebody cuts you off. Well, everything we do is accelerating hard, braking hard, turning hard. We're experiencing G-forces in the car that you don't experience on the street, turn after turn, lap after lap." inch of pad left. Altman tried to be careful but, on the penultimate lap, he saw the car behind him start to creep up on his bumper. "I said, 'I'm just going to have to let it rip,' " he said. "I'm going to go, and hopefully I saved enough brakes.' I stomped on it and drove that last lap giving it everything." Although those sorts of split-second decisions aren't as frequent in law, Altman sees plenty of parallels. "There's a certain amount of success that comes from being meticulous and planning things and kind of knowing what you're going to do before you do it," he said. "There's always some amount of doing things on the fly, but there's also being prepared to have to do things on the fly." Holly Skolnick "Something I impart to associates and the folks I'm training is there's really no excuse for sloppiness," he said. "Nothing good comes from sloppiness, and it's one of the hardest things to recover from if you're tagged with being someone who is sloppy. There's no room for that in racing, and there's no room for that in the practice of law."