In honor of Veteran’s Day, Jackson Walker senior counsel Roderick Faulk wrote an essay for Texas Lawbook describing how his Air Force service has guided his legal career.
“Few things will teach you about excellence quite like working around some of the Air Force’s best leaders and pilots. Every detail mattered, every system had to work, and every member of the team had to do their part the right way the first time,” Mr. Faulk wrote.
Mr. Faulk describes applying the core lessons he learned in the military to his mergers and acquisitions practice.
“In M&A practice, excellence lives in the details: the defined term that ripples through an entire purchase agreement, the closing checklist with hundreds of items, the timeline that does not move no matter how many surprises come up,” he wrote.
Read Mr. Faulk’s full essay here: