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Law Practice

Feb. 19, 2014

Veteran land use lawyer survives cancer, changes approach to life

This year, Timothy A. Tosta is marking two anniversaries - 40 years practicing law and a decade visiting the poor at a San Francisco hospital's hospice unit.


By Fiona Smith


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - This year, Timothy A. Tosta is marking two anniversaries - 40 years practicing law and a decade visiting the poor at a San Francisco hospital's hospice unit. And while his volunteer work seems a world away from his land use practice at McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, for Tosta the two are intimately linked.


It began when Tosta had his own brush with death. More than 20 years ago h...

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