Zac Bookman
FROM:
Cabin John, MD
HEROES:
Mostly an iconoclast.
PROUDEST ACCOMPLISHMENT:
Climbing Denali (Mt. McKinley).
SOMETHING YOU MIGHT TEACH AT THE SUMMIT:
United States v. Young: A Federal Criminal Appeal
SOMETHING YOU HOPE TO LEARN AT THE SUMMIT:
The important trends in different industries.
SOMETHING YOU ARE STRUGGLING WITH IN YOUR WORK:
Whether to stay in the legal profession or branch out.
SOMETHING THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY:
Evening runs, big meals, good films, surf, golf, and road trips.
SOMETHING THAT MAKES YOU ANGRY:
Flakiness.
TELL US ABOUT YOUR FAMILY:
I had an unsheltered childhood in an eclectic neighborhood. After my parents divorced, my father remarried and took up a second career with the Seattle transportation department. My mother lives in San Francisco, as does my brother. He works for a hedge fund in Marin County. I have a 95 year-old grandfather who lives in New York.
AN IDEA TO MAKE THE 30SUMMIT EVEN BETTER:
Don't overschedule.
BIOGRAPHY:
I grew up in a small town, where I ran a lawn business. I went to Sidwell Friends School in DC and then the University of Maryland. In 2007, I graduated with a joint degree from Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School. I spent 2008 on a Fulbright Fellowship studying the implementation of Mexico's Freedom of Information Act. I spent 2009 as a law clerk to the Hon. Sandra S. Ikuta on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Next year, I will be a trial attorney with Keker & Van Nest in San Francisco.
