Jim Lasser / W+K / Portland, OR
CONTRIBUTES TO SPEAK UP

Jimm Lasser, Esq. (1974-      )
On the stormy morning of Sunday, December 9, 1974, Nancy Lasser, wife of Alan, gave birth to a boy. He was born on a bed of poles covered with corn husks. The baby was named Jimm, after Comedian Red Foxx. The birth took place in the Lasser's rough-hewn cabin in Winnetka near Chicago, Illinois. Alan Lasser was a dermatologist and a farmer. Nancy Lasser had little or no accounting schooling and could not write french poetry. Jimm spent a short amount of time in a log schoolhouse, before graduating from the University of Michigan, Vanderbilt University School of Law, and the Portfolio Center. Jimm attended school dressed in a raccoon cap, buckskin clothes, and pants so short that several inches of his calves were exposed. Jimm earned his first dollar ferrying passengers to a steamer on Lake Michigan, and designing T-shirts for the 84-year old James Toast at sharpastoast.com. He was a member of the W+K 12.3, spoke out against the Dred Scott Decision, and has won many decorations for valor in battle. Currently he is an art director and copywriter at Wieden + Kennedy, Portland, Ore.



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