Bob Webb, Troutman Sanders' Longtime Chairman, Retires
The retirement of Troutman Sanders Chairman Bob Webb received significant press coverage in the middle of December – the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Biznow, Bloomberg BNA, the Daily Report and Law360. After 40 years, the man who transformed the Atlanta-based firm from one office with approximately 150 lawyers to a firm with 12 offices and more than 650 lawyers plans to “relax” and spend time with his grandchildren and visit his beach house on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina.
Bob started at Troutman Sanders in 1975 and took over the reigns as managing partner in 1993. In 2006, he took on the additional title of chairman after Governor Carl Sanders became chairman emeritus. He relinquished the role of managing partner in 2011 to Atlanta partner Steve Lewis.
“We’re going to miss Bob greatly,” Steve Lewis said in the Daily Report article. “He built the modern version of the firm.”
“I think that [a] combination of energy and enthusiasm is what has been with Bob [ ] his whole career,” said senior counsel Norman Underwood in the Law360 article. He added that Bob had actively been looking for opportunities for the firm right up until the day of his retirement. “I never got the impression that he was slowing down,” he said.
Steve, who took over the strategic responsibilities of Bob upon his retirement, was the subject of an item in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and an article in his hometown paper, the Mooresville Tribune in North Carolina.