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Law Practice

Feb. 23, 2011

Head of L.A. Trial Lawyers Seeks to Up Diversity

Philip Michels, the 2011 CAALA president and medical malpractice expert, wants to get younger lawyers and more minorities involved in the 62-year-old trial lawyers' group.


By Ciaran McEvoy


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - For a guy with an admitted anti-authoritarian streak, Philip Michels has risen to a prime position of authority among his fellow lawyers. Last month, he became 2011 president of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, the trial lawyers group.


Michels, whose long hair and facial hair decades ago got him barred from a teaching job in Santa Barbara and helped get him fired from...

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