Rebecca Ann Cecchini Email and Phone Number

The world of complex commercial disputes can seem overwhelming, chaotic, and daunting. I help my clients minimize the complexity and wrangle in the chaos. Colleagues and clients alike want me on their teams to keep them organized and handle stressful situations with patience and poise. I’m known for coordinating large teams and maneuvering the ever-changing world of e-discovery. Before attending law school, I attended GW on a theater scholarship. My program focused on stage-managing and theater design. I worked as a stage manager, organizing large groups of people, each with competing agendas and issues. Since then, I’ve taken the skills I learned coordinating musicals and plays and transferred them to the practice of law. Today, the skills I learned in the theater help me to coordinate large, complex litigations with massive e-discovery obligations. I consider myself as fulfilling the “American Dream.” My mother’s family emigrated from Italy at the turn of the last century, making a home in Manhattan’s Little Italy and working as hard as they could to survive. My great grandmother took whatever work she could in order to help support her family, eventually finding work at a factory making women’s coats. Her tough work ethic was passed down from generation to generation. When I was a child, my great-grandmother consistently told me to work hard and get a good education. I worked hard as she taught me, and today I am an attorney at a global law firm; that’s the American Dream. I will never forget where I come from, and I will never forget what it took to get here. I carry my great-grandmother’s work ethic with me each day, striving to follow in her footsteps.I am an active member of the A&O Shearman firm community. I pride myself in helping to develop the next generation of lawyers. My role as mentor is one I take very seriously, and I try to carry out that role with patience and grace. I’m also very active in the firm’s DE&I initiatives. When I am not at work, I love spending time with my husband and my doggie named Hank. Together, we love walking the shores of Long Island collecting sea shells. ATTORNEY ADVERTISING; PRIOR RESULTS DO NOT GUARANTEE A SIMILAR RESULT.