Litigator Andrew C. Hall calls himself a “Polish Jewish Don Quixote.” He might not have wound up in law at all, though, if not for a fraternity prank and a hangover.

Born in a coal cellar during the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis, forced to wander the continent as a “war orphan” before reuniting with his family, Hall found a new home — and a calling — in America. It drives him every day.