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- Former Reed Smith partner Douglas Wood's latest book focuses on helping attorneys generate business in the start of their careers and confront the realities of aging when it comes time to plan for succession.
- Wood encourages firms to begin investing in their senior attorneys, highlighting missed opportunities for innovation.
Douglas Wood, a now-retired media and advertising partner at Reed Smith, wants Big Law lawyers—with help from their firms—to be both measured and proactive when it comes to winding down a successful career.
His newbook, titled “From Dawn to Dusk” and released in May, is part manual, providing worksheets to help analyze opportunities and crunch numbers, and part memoir, unfaltering at the flood of emotions that come with understanding one’s mortality and the fear behind surrendering power and relevancy.
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