Employer: Shearman & Sterling
Title and Practice Area: Counsel, Real Estate

What was the most valuable lesson you learned in your first year practicing law? To be confident in your communications with your superiors, opposing counsel and clients. As a junior associate, you might not always know the answer to a question or the next step in a transaction, but exuding confidence and self-assurance helps to make you a valuable member of the team.

Describe your biggest win or accomplishment in practice. Being an instrumental part of the team that represented the U.S. Department of Transportation on the $526 million financing of the construction of the Moynihan Train Hall Redevelopment Project in New York City.