It was 1997, and James Gilliland—then a partner at Townsend & Townsend & Crew—had a two-month trial in Santa Clara County. Gilliland could only get home to his family in El Cerrito on weekends. So every evening at 8 p.m., the IP attorney called his kids from Townsend’s “war room” to say goodnight.
“He would ask his youngest to sing to him, and then he would put the phone on speaker so we could have that moment of shared joy,” said Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton managing partner Susan Spaeth, a Townsend associate at the time. When the Townsend team eventually prevailed, “it showed you can win and have those moments of balance at the same time you’re working your tail off.”
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