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Daniel Davillier
Position: Partner, Phelps Dunbar LLP
Age: 35
Family: wife, Germaine; daughter, Dominique, 3; son, Daniel, Jr., 1
Education: B.S. general business, University of New Orleans; J.D., Tulane University
Before he even finished high school, Daniel Davillier had drafted his first legal transaction.
His mother grounded him for the weekend, and Davillier was determined to go to a football game with his friends from St. Augustine High School.
So he fetched pen and paper and wrote out a contract spelling out what he promised to do "everything my mom was on me to do all the time" - if she let him go. Impressed by her son's ability to negotiate,...