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Law Practice

Jun. 3, 2011

Corporate Lawyer Takes on Unlikely Case

Chris Manderson, of Manderson, Schafer & McKinlay LLP, took a break from corporate transactional work to represent one of the main witnesses in the federal probe of doping in the world of pro cycling.


By Gabe Friedman


Daily Journal Staff Writer


The day before his client was scheduled to testify before a grand jury, Chris Manderson sat down in his Orange County backyard and told him to "spill his guts."


The client doing the talking was Tyler Hamilton, a gold-medal Olympic cyclist who'd already tested positive for drugs.


That afternoon in July 2010, Hamilton told his lawyer his story, including how he used performance-...

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