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Solo and Small Firms

Apr. 16, 2011

Small Firm Caters to Labor

Seventy-five years after its fouding, Beeson, Tayer & Bodine has successfully adapted to meet the changing face and needs of the labor movement while also maintaining many of its oldest clients.


By Emily Green


Daily Journal Staff Writer


OAKLAND - In the 1930s, in the midst of the Great Depression, Matthew Tobriner established a one-person labor-side union firm. Among his first clients was a rice grower's cooperative. Soon, a local judge recommended Tobriner to a San Francisco union in need of a lawyer - Teamsters Local 85.


Seventy-five years later, the firm Tobriner started has survived, and even thrived, establishing itself over ...

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