Leann Walsh ’11 was promoted to partner in the Labor, Employment and Workplace Safety practice of global legal giant K&L Gates in March 2020, just as the Covid-19 pandemic struck. “It was terrifying at the time,” said Walsh, “because I was promoted, then immediately the world shut down.”
She saw opportunity as well as challenge in the new uncharted workplace landscape. “I figured that if I could jump in the quickest and learn the fastest and be the first one to raise my hand as clients needed advice on the topic, which all of them did, then I’d have plenty to do,” she said, speaking by Zoom from her sunny office in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Her intuition proved correct. Since that tough beginning, she has grown her practice to a team of eight, the firm’s largest US employment law team on the East Coast. “I’ve found that I really like building a team and creating good jobs for people,” she said. Chosen in 2022 as a “40 Under 40” honoree in Triangle Business...
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