Mark Padilla remembers vividly the exact defining moment when he decided to become a lawyer. He was welding in Iowa in 20 degrees below zero weather, and he thought, "I've got to find a better way to make a living." Now, as GC of Cox Communications, he says the practice of law is not as hard as the steel business. "You're sitting in a leather chair in an air conditioned office. You've got a pencil in your hand. It's like I've died and gone to heaven."
October 16, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Mark Padilla was born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1956, the son of parents who had just moved to the United States from Argentina. The family started a steel manufacturing business, which is how he made his living until his late 20s. Then he moved to Atlanta and enrolled at Georgia State University. He got his undergraduate degree the year he turned 30, and his law degree at 35.
Padilla remembers vividly the exact defining moment when he decided to become a lawyer.
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