After trawling the spectrum of news publications for months in search of something newsworthy on emerging national law firm Gilbert & Tobin, we today stumbled across a short remark from managing partner Danny Gilbert.
When asked how he felt about the economic outlook in today’s AFR in light of the fact that his firm appointed a paltry one partner this year, Gilbert replied:
‘sanguine.’
For those of you who, like us, don’t know the definition of ‘sanguine’, here it is:
ADJECTIVE
Im bloody optimistic!
- Of the color of blood; red.
- Of a healthy reddish color; ruddy; a sanguine complexion
- Having blood as the dominant humour in terms of medieval physiology
- Having the temperament and ruddy complexion formerly thought to be characteristic of a person dominated by this humor; passionate.
- Cheerfully confident; optimisitc
So, in relation to the GFC, is Gilbert blood red (with anger?). feeling bloody healthy, having a bloody laugh, or just bloody optimistic? We watched a recent interview with Danny to get to the bottom of this and have extracted some quotes below:
we built the firm by identifying market niches… and attracting key, important partners from other law firms.. who perhaps felt they were not able to achieve what they wanted to achieve in the firms that they were with… we were prepared to take risks with people and give people a go in ways that other law firms might have been a little bit more conservative.
Has Danny taken one too many risks with underachieving partners? Boy-o-boy, that’d make us blood-red with anger too!
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