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Law Practice

Feb. 5, 2013

Collections attorney readies for another bankrupt law firm

Joel D. Adler is seeking to collect unpaid legal bills from former clients of defunct law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, while serving a similar role in four other large law firm bankruptcies.


By Kevin Lee


Daily Journal Staff Writer


At first, Joel D. Adler seems like the last person a law firm would hire to aggressively pursue clients who are slow to pay their legal bills. The 65-year-old bespectacled lawyer looks like a university professor and seems soft-spoken and modest. But the lawyers who hire him to get tough on delinquent clients tell a different story."He is tenacious," said Cooper, White & Cooper LLP Chairman Mark P. ...

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