Win Quayle, Esq.

• Date: 22 March 2022

When Win Quayle retired after a successful career as a corporate partner and general counsel at Ropes & Gray LLP, he turned his time to volunteering --including as a Senior Fellow at CLF. Over the past five years, Win has not only helped CLF with a wide variety of projects, but also embraced a role as mentor to early-career attorneys at the organization.

What drew you to the law?

A few things: A kindly lawyer helped our family when my father passed away suddenly when I was in college. The lawyer went beyond the call of duty, advising my mother on business and financial matters and taking a personal interest in my two sisters and me.

That was also the Watergate era, and legal issues were in the news all the time as they are now. There was the so-called Saturday Night Massacre, when President Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire the special...