This article originally appeared in Leading Lawyers Network Magazine — Real Estate, Construction and Environmental Edition for 2012.

On any given day, David Saltiel could represent a landlord in a dispute with a tenant.

A corporate client may want help acquiring a company. Or he might mingle with Hollywood actors on the set of a movie where he represents the film’s writers. This is on-the-job diversity that’s hard to find. “I don’t know what I’m going to be doing, but I do know whatever it is, it’s pretty interesting,” he says.

Saltiel, 57, is an equity partner at K&L Gates, where he handles real estate, entertainment and corporate law. He continues a line of Saltiels who have practiced law in Chicago since the 1890s.

In his real estate practice, the type of work depends on the economic cycle. Some of his more well-known residential development projects include the Palmolive Building, The Heritage at Millennium Park, and The Chicagoan.