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Law Practice

Jun. 7, 2006

Coming to America: Scientist From Russia Takes Circuitous Route to Legal Practice

Boris Gorbis seems to take life with a sense of humor. His office is in the Flynt Building, as in Larry Flynt, the publisher of Hustler magazine. Gorbis' offices are full to overflowing with collections, most obviously of surrealist and abstract impressionist paintings and American art deco tea sets and clocks from the '20s and '30s.

Boris Gorbis seems to take life with a sense of humor. His office is in the Flynt Building, as in Larry Flynt, the publisher of Hustler magazine. Gorbis' offices are full to overflowing with collections, most obviously of surrealist and abstract impressionist paintings and American art deco tea sets and clocks from the '20s and '30s.
      It's a long way from Odessa, Ukraine, where Gorbis was born. He studied thermo-engineering in 1969, du...

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