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Litigation

Mar. 4, 2000

Toxic Defender

Robert Berkes didn't just read "Bleak House," he lived it. Similar to Jarndyce and Jarndyce, the law firm in Dickens' novel whose case in the chancery of Victorian England went on forever, Berkes was involved in the largest and longest insurance coverage trial in California history.

By Leonard Novarro
        Robert Berkes didn't just read "Bleak House," he lived it.
        Similar to Jarndyce and Jarndyce, the law firm in Dickens' novel whose case in the chancery of Victorian England went on forever, Berkes was involved in the largest and longest insurance coverage trial in California history.
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