After graduating from Georgetown University in 1998, Stephanie McCann went to work on a Wall Street trading desk. “I saw so many broken phones and computer equipment being smashed on a weekly basis, and I decided I don’t want to end up with anger management issues,” she said on this week’s Drinks With The Deal podcast.

Instead, McCann went to the University of Chicago Law School and embarked on a career as a finance lawyer. Now a partner and a member of the executive and management committees at McDermott Will & Emery LLP in Chicago, McCann credited her choice of practice area to a mentor early in her career.

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