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Large Firms

May 29, 2002

Wilson Sonsini Aims to Strike Delicate Balance

PALO ALTO - For nearly a year, Larry Sonsini, the 61-year-old chairman and chief executive of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, poured as many as 18 hours a day into the biggest deal in his life of big deals - the recently approved $19 billion merger between Hewlett-Packard Co. and Compaq Computer Corp.

By Joel Rosenblatt
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        PALO ALTO - For nearly a year, Larry Sonsini, the 61-year-old chairman and chief executive of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, poured as many as 18 hours a day into the biggest deal in his life of big deals - the recently approved $19 billion merger between Hewlett-Packard Co. and Compaq Computer Corp.
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