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Verdicts

Jan. 13, 2007

Without Written Agreement, Departed Client Owes No Fees

LOS ANGELES - When top Hollywood talent attorney Barry L. Hirsch left the firm he helped found, he took a few partners and many celebrity clients with him, started a new firm, then turned around and sued the old one.

By Rebecca Beyer
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES - When top Hollywood talent attorney Barry L. Hirsch left the firm he helped found, he took a few partners and many celebrity clients with him, started a new firm, then turned around and sued the old one.
      Hirsch claimed in August 2004 that the firm, Hirsch Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austen Mandelbaum & Morris, tried to force h...

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