Ed.
note:
Welcome
to
our
daily
feature,
Quote
of
the
Day.
Trial
work
is—not
to
engage
in
age
discrimination—
younger
people’s
work.
It’s
hard
on
you,
mentally
and
physically.
It
requires
a
degree
of
mental
and
physical
stamina
that,
at
least
for
me
as
I’m
in
my
70s,
was
not
something
that
I
could
look
myself
in
the
mirror
and
claim
that
I
was
sure
that
I
had.
Part
of
this
is
to
clear
the
runway
for
the
next
generation,
but
also
so
the
next
generation
knows
what
they
should
be
doing
with
those
generations
that
follow.
—
Bill
Lee,
74,
managing
partner
of
WilmerHale,
in
comments
given
during
an
interview
with
Litigation
Daily,
where
he
spoke
of
succession
planning
at
his
firm.
“I’m
a
big
believer
that
it’s
better
to
go
before
people
want
you
to
go,”
Lee
said.
“You
don’t
want
to
be
the
person
who
someone
says,
‘Wow,
he
used
to
throw
95
miles
an
hour.
Now
he’s
throwing
80,’
or
‘He
used
to
be
good.’”
Lee
is
no
longer
taking
on
trial
work,
and
hasn’t
done
so
since
the
end
of
2002,
following
a
lengthy
run
of
seven
trials.
He
now
prefers
to
watch
his
granddaughter
play
soccer,
which
he
calls
“the
best
possible
use
of
my
time.”
Staci
Zaretsky is
a
senior
editor
at
Above
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Law,
where
she’s
worked
since
2011.
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