Life at LDM | Attorney Spotlight, Phillip T. Sanberg
Phillip T. Sanberg, Attorney
What is your definition of success?
Professionally, for me, it means consistently delivering effective, timely, and low risk business and legal outcomes that clients trust and value.
What's the most unique part about working at LDM?
The responsibility and flexibility given to associate attorneys to take on any type of work, while being provided as much (or as little) support as needed on any given matter.
What’s one thing — either industry-related or not — you learned in the last month?
Dogs can understand around 200 words and gestures, comparable to a 2-year-old child.
What’s the best advice you can give to someone who is just starting their career?
When practicing law, you will always be learning. Law school doesn’t teach how to be a lawyer, but how to learn to be a lawyer.
What are you currently reading, binge-watching or listing to?
As a big history fan, I just finished reading Ghosts of Panama by Leon Carroll Jr. and Mark Harmon. The book is an account of a U.S. Naval Investigative Service (NIS) Special Agent, who—on the eve of the 1989 invasion—uncovers critical intelligence on Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega. The book chronicles how that intelligence, combined with the killing of a U.S. Marine, helped shape Washington’s decision to invade Panama, as described by people on the ground.
