What was the most valuable lesson you learned in your first year of practice? For a young deal lawyer, it’s all in the details. Your contract drafting not only clarifies the parties’ expectations now, but may become critically important later, especially if your work is to be interpreted by a judge or jury. Once you think a draft is done, read it again.
Describe your biggest win or accomplishment in practice. Managing the energy project development arrangements for Fort Hood. Making that project work required a good deal of creative thinking to find ways to match traditional financability requirements with government procurement regulations.
