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Wachovia Corp., Charlotte
Born: May 11, 1957
Education: bachelor's, University of Virginia, 1979; master's, University of Kentucky, 1985; law, University of Buffalo, 1985
Family: wife, Beatrice; one child
Best advice he ever got "You don't have to be Perry Mason or a flashy lawyer to win cases. Just be prepared.
Favorite film: The Man Who Would Be King
Bump in the road: Research for his final paper for his master's degree was stolen from his car in 1982.
As a fourth-year associate at a Buffalo, N.Y., law firm, Doug Edwards represented a bank in a series of Chapter 12 bankruptcy hearings involving dairy farms. He had to inspect the value of the farms' collateral - in this case, cows. "We had court in the morning and then met out at the farm to look at the state of the cows and equipment. I had boots on but stepped mid-thigh into a hole filled with a combination of mud and cow manure. I had to get rid of my suit because I couldn't get the cow-manure...