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Large Firms

Aug. 23, 2006

Former Thelen Employee Brings Politics to Mix

SAN FRANCISCO - While Alix Rosenthal was working as a San Francisco elections commissioner in 2002, her managing partner at Thelen Reid & Priest got a letter from someone calling her a "loose cannon" and warning that her actions could tarnish the large firm's reputation.

By Laura Ernde
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SAN FRANCISCO - While Alix Rosenthal was working as a San Francisco elections commissioner in 2002, her managing partner at Thelen Reid & Priest got a letter from someone calling her a "loose cannon" and warning that her actions could tarnish the large firm's reputation.
      Rosenthal described the letter as an intimidation tactic by...

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