It would have been a perfect place for the Olympics, he commented afterwards. The administration of the Olympics is only one area where Pound's weight is felt. His reach extends into the Montreal law firm Stikeman Elliott, where he is a partner and full-time tax lawyer, and into his alma mater McGill University, where he chairs the Board of Governors and the McGill Athletics Board. He seems to have three full-time jobs, says his stepson Keith Flavell, a lawyer who works at the law firm Heenan Blaikie, across the street from Pound in downtown Montreal. He uses his time very, very well, comments McGill's past-principal David Johnston.
Time is a foe to be conquered.
My, that's a veeeeery long voice message, young lady. The mastery of time began in the swimming pool. You were forever falling into a lake or the ocean, he said during an early morning interview in his downtown office. If you couldn't swim, you disappeared. Pound did anything but disappear.