Dan Webb

AGE: 66
OCCUPATION: Chairman, Winston & Strawn

The former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, who joined the politically connected law firm Winston & Strawn in 1985, is the go-to litigator for white-collar defendants nationwide.

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