Ted Greeno Talks Managing Stress in Big Law with ALM | Law.com

Quinn Emanuel's London co-managing partner, Ted Greeno, is among the senior City partners featured in Law.com's piece "'Make the First and Last Client of the Day Yourself': London's Top Partners on Tackling Stress in Big Law," which explores how leading lawyers cope with the pressures of a career in Big Law.

Ted is Co-Managing Partner of the London office and Co-Chair of the firm's Energy Disputes practice. 

Greeno credits Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now, read some 25 years ago, with shaping his approach to workplace stress: "What it tells you is that, however bad you think things might get, they are rarely, if ever, that bad in the present moment. In other words, your worst fears are very unlikely to materialise, so stop worrying about them." He also underlines the value of not keeping work problems to oneself, echoing the age-old saying that a problem shared is a problem halved.

When it comes to his own coping mechanisms, Greeno borrows from Churchill's wartime rallying cry to "KBO"—keep buggering on—paired with a more personal remedy: a glass of good Burgundy and a loving wife.

Beyond the personal habits, Greeno's contribution speaks to a wider point running through the piece: that resilience in Big Law is as much about firm culture as individual coping strategies, with senior partners increasingly willing to speak openly about the realities of managing stress at the top of the profession.

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