Travis Ortiz: I Am Barnes & Thornburg

I AM...

• One of seven siblings (so I’m still fighting for your attention and affection)
• Sporting a tattoo I was forced to get because I didn’t go with my dad and brother to see Georgia (finally!) win the national championship in Indianapolis this year
• Anxious to speak to someone at ABC about ways to improve The Bachelor (shouldn’t it be Pete Davidson this year?)
• Capable of bench pressing 315, I just choose not to
• Learning to play the piano so that I can write my musical set at a law firm (first number: “Sounds Like a Tax Issue”)
• Interested in hearing about your dreams or nightmares
• Already nervous about the day I meet Tom Hanks and ask him to read lines from my favorite movie, Castaway
• Always looking for ways to use a whiteboard after working as a teacher in Hong Kong for two years
• Totally reliant on my colleague in the funds group, Maria Monte, when it comes to difficult legal drafting and life decisions
• Hoping that one day the MARC, VRE, Amtrak and DC Metro lines are combined into a single coherent regional rail system

This profile appeared in the November 2022 edition of I Am Barnes & Thornburg.

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