Read All About It: 2012 Ohio Super Lawyers

In the latest issue of Southern California Super Lawyers magazine magazine, we talk with IP and business litigator Adrian M. Pruetz of Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro. The Q&A, "Wanted: Shades of Grey," is online. What follows is the first of two blog-exclusive excerpts from the interview.

Who was your mentor?
I had a few mentors.

At my first law firm, Whyte Hirschboeck, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin... God, I haven't seen him for years. There was a guy named Peter Stone who I thought was just the best litigator I've ever seen. We worked together on all kinds of things.

When I moved on to Morrison & Foerster, Haley Fromholz was someone I really admired. There were a lot of things I learned from him--particularly how to represent a client well and not let cases have a life of their own. He was very good about controlling [cases]. What a lot of attorneys do is write a million letters, and things that don't advance the ball much for your client. I learned ways to handle cases from him that were useful. I also felt he was an excellent trial lawyer and litigator, so I tried to understand how he did it, tried to pick up what I could.

In the most recent issue of Louisiana Super Lawyers, we spoke with former IRS attorney Jaye A. Calhoun of McGlinchey Stafford about her love of all things tax law.

An excerpt:

Are there advantages for a company in bankruptcy? When is a senior lender not a senior lender? How do you cap a claim asserted by a landlord? In this exclusive interview, bankrupty attorney Michael L. Tuchin, of the firm Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern in Los Angeles, and our cover subject for the 2012 issue of Southern California Super Lawyers magazine, talks about some of the advantages of filing a chapter 11:

A second video, on why lifelong relationships can develop between bankruptcy attorneys and their clients, can be seen here.