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Solo and Small Firms

Feb. 4, 2017

Balaban & Spielberger LLP specializes in bet-the-farm cases

The Los Angeles-based plaintiffs' firm has built a practice around litigating daunting cases that other attorneys don't want to touch.

By Eli Wolfe
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES — Andrew Spielberger has been saddled with an 840-pound problem. A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge declared that his clients are the lawful owners of the Bahia Emerald — one of the largest known emeralds in the world. But he's currently battling the country of Brazil, where the emerald originated, which claims the gem was illegally mined and exporte...

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