Tefft Smith, a Kirkland & Ellis senior litigation partner who heads up the antitrust practice, has four passions: family, the law, squash and Ferraris. Since purchasing a 1985 Ferrari 308 GTS 18 years ago, Smith has gone a little fast-car crazy -- his office is decorated with Ferrari model cars and memorabilia. But at least his family approves of the obsession -- he recalls when his son walked out to the parking lot and saw Smith's 2005 Ferrari Superamerica, he said: "Dad, you are a real lawyer."
January 30, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Until he was 42, Tefft Smith happily took the train to his office at Kirkland & Ellis in downtown Chicago. That is, until the fateful day that his then-13-year-old son asked him, “Dad, are you a real lawyer?”
“I said, ‘Yeah, I’m a real lawyer.’ And he said, ‘Dad, don’t real lawyers drive cars?’ ” Smith recalls.
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