Employer: Goulston & Storrs
Title and Practice Area: Associate, Real Estate

What was the most valuable lesson you learned in your first year of practice?  Your colleagues are your most valuable tool in your practice. I learned quickly to reach out for others' wisdom, experience and advice, and that resource has made me a much stronger advocate.

Describe your biggest win or accomplishment in practice.  Creating the legal path for RiverPoint, a redevelopment of the old Coast Guard headquarters in Southwest D.C., presented a complicated, multifaceted, exciting land use project. Gaining the needed legal approvals for a $250 million project ultimately supported by the community, city agencies and the Zoning Commission was a thrilling conclusion.

Who do you consider to be your greatest lawyer mentor?  Allison Prince, a director at Goulston, has taught me how to help clients using personal strengths. I've also learned to focus on the full picture of the client's goal, not just their legal needs, allowing me to better serve their total interests and get the job done.

Please share a key to your success. In all that you do, dive in. Whether it is into a client question, a thorny legal issue, a passion about the legal industry, or your personal relationships, dive in, be authentic and be willing to get messy. You get out what you put in, so put in your all.