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This week’s 5Q features Heather Vickles, a partner at Venable LLP. Her practice focuses on labor and unemployment. Her favorite weekend activity is getting outside for some physical activity and spending “time in the beautiful country surrounding Steamboat Springs and the Yampa Valley where [she lives], cycling and hiking in the summer and fall, skiing and snowmobiling in the winter, avoiding the mud in the spring.”
Question 1: What is your favorite restaurant, and what’s your favorite thing to order there?
Vickles: The Ore House in Steamboat Springs. Who can resist a classic prime rib dinner with all the fixins, including a salad bar?
Q2: What’s your favorite movie or TV show?
Vickles: “Mad Men” — the writing, the depth of the characters, the costumes and the most perfect ending of any series I’ve ever seen.
Q3: Which celebrity was on the posters you had hanging on your teenage bedroom wall?
Vickles: Robert Redford.
Q4: How many years of experience do you have?
Vickles: 32.
Q5: Which rule of evidence do you hate the most and why?
Vickles: The business records exception to the hearsay rule because just when you think you’ve got it mastered, you encounter a trial judge with a new take.
Read more about Vickles and her judiciary experience at www.venable.com/professionals/v/heather-fox-vickles.
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