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Solo and Small Firms

Jan. 18, 2014

No Bluffing

Marlin & Saltzman LLP forged a reputation as a go-to defense firm in the 1980s and 90s, but then made a switch to plaintiff's work. A key to its success? Lawyers prepare to take a case to trial, no matter what.


By Andrew McIntyre


Daily Journal Staff Writer


IRVINE - In the mid-1980s, Louis M. Marlin and Stanley D. Saltzman were lead defense attorneys in a massive psychological malpractice case brought by former patients of the Center for Feeling Therapy against the then-defunct Hollywood psychotherapy group.


Marlin was a sole practitioner and Saltzman was an insurance defense lawyer at Fonda & Garrard, but both were impressed by how the other had ...

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