Law Practice
Dec. 24, 2016
Sailing allowed attorney Walter Raineri to push out the claustrophobic walls of his blindness
After losing his vision due to a degenerative disease, Walter Raineri from Fenwick & West now sails competitively to push boundaries.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
At 45, Walter Raineri was at a peak in his career as a tax attorney and partner with Fenwick & West LLP. Then, at the beginning of 2005, he lost 95 percent of his vision.
Raineri described the five-month period in which he lost his sight as a plunging guillotine which had been looming overhead — he had known for years that he suffered from a degenerative retinal disease called r...
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