Tim Lupinacci

As the CEO and Chair of Baker Donelson, one of the 100 largest law firms in the United States, Tim has faced significant leadership challenges, including turning a $500 million organization from declining profits to record growth, navigating a global pandemic, leading transformative change in a 100+-year-old organization, and maintaining engagement and community in an increasingly remote workforce. As a self-professed “leadership junkie,” Tim’s journey to understanding what it meant to step up as a leader began thirty years earlier as a young lawyer after he disappointed a boss with an epic failure on a project. The boss challenged Tim (after significant yelling and tough love) by saying that he saw in Tim a strong leader who needed to step up and own his projects, his career, and ambitions.

Tim has a B.A. in Mass Communication from the University of Montevallo and a J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law. Upon graduating from law school in 1991, he went to work for a large law firm in Birmingham, Alabama, where he worked for twelve years. After a three-year stint at another local law firm, he joined Baker Donelson in 2005 and became CEO of the firm in 2019. He presently leads 1,300 employees in 24 offices across 15 states in executing their five-year BakerVision 2028 strategic plan.