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Securities

Mar. 25, 2009

Exec Accuses Company, Lawyers of Conspiring to Oust Him

The prominent tech executive's wrongful termination suit reads like a "B-grade Hollywood spy movie."

By Gabe Friedman
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - Like many ousted executives, Alex Lidow believes he has been unfairly maligned.

But unlike others, he has taken the rare step of publicly accusing several Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton attorneys and the former general counsel of his one-time company, International Rectifier, of conspiring in a noirish power plot reminiscent of a "B-grade Hollywood spy movie" to remove him from his p...

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