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Entertainment & Sports

Apr. 10, 2001

Live Through This

If you aren't prepared to go all 15 rounds, then you shouldn't get into the ring, according to courtroom warrior A. Barry Cappello. "Otherwise, you're bullshit," Cappello says on a recent Friday afternoon, as he walks the boutique-lined streets of Santa Barbara, where he has practiced law for 23 years. * Cappello is in the first round of a lawsuit he filed in February on behalf of punk rocker-turned-actress-turned-activist Courtney Love.

Live Through This
From his Santa Barbara office, Barry Cappello sits miles away from the Capitol Records Building and the Whisky-A-Go-Go in Los Angeles. How did this litigator with no music-business ties team up with rocker Courtney Love to take on the recording industry?

        By Jeffrey Anderson
        
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