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Law Practice

Jan. 27, 2009

Consensus-Builder Leads Firm Through Three Decades of Legal Storms

The managing partner of the firm now known as Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis helped the firm survive through democracy, not dictatorship.

By Amanda Becker
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - The first permanent office of the firm now known as Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis was on the 54th floor of the First Interstate Bank building.

And like that building - which was the site of one of Los Angeles' worst high-rise fires in 1988 - the firm has successfully weathered multiple storms, and has managed to grow in the process.

"In a strong wind, you could feel...

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