Linklaters corporate partner Tom Shropshire reflects on the agony of choice and listening to Mom
What’s the closest you have come to doing something other than law? I crossed the “chasm” early in my professional life when I was in strategic planning and business development for Philip Morris at its headquarters in New York. I spent lots of time in darkened meeting rooms plotting the fate of the free world. Not much has changed, except my job as a corporate lawyer makes it slightly less awkward for my kids to answer the question, “What does your dad do?”
