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Law Practice

Dec. 28, 2006

Adding Upward-Facing Lawyer to the Practice

High-Stakes Attorney In Courtroom Is a Hard-Driving Yogi On the Yoga Mat

By Anne Marie Ruff
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES - Three times a week, at 5:15 in the morning, John Shaeffer can be found in a silent, unlit studio twisting and stretching his body into a fixed series of seemingly impossible positions.
      Aside from being a high-stakes trial lawyer at Fox Spillane Shaeffer, he is an Ashtangi - one who practices a style of yoga called Ashtanga.
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