40 Under Forty Awards 2024
Michael Mineau | 39
Counsel, Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP
What is the best advice you have ever received? As an attorney, your reputation is paramount. It takes a lifetime to build but can be damaged in an instant.
Where do you see yourself in five years? Hopefully serving the same clients and many new ones.
What was your first job? Working at a car wash and detailing cars at 16 in my hometown in Wisconsin.
What advice would you give your 22-year-old self? Wait about three years and buy a multifamily rental property.
What moment changed your life more than any other? Personally, becoming a father in 2014. Professionally, it was the combination of career moves over the course of the next 10 years, which most significantly led to my growth and development into the attorney who I am today.
What is your greatest attribute that you bring to your job? My focus on the client. I pride myself on being a “go-to” for clients and maximizing my value to clients.
What is your favorite Rhode Island food or drink? Oysters.
What was your last streaming or cable binge watch? “House of the Dragon.”
What is your preferred source for national news? Google News.