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Firm Watch

Nov. 9, 2007

How to Fold 150 Laterals Into Your Firm

As pandemonium reigned around them, Steve Finn and Brock Gowdy had a rule: keep smiling. It was January 2003, and the two partners at Brobeck Phleger & Harrison were seeing their world fall apart before their eyes.

By Fiona Smith
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SAN FRANCISCO - As pandemonium reigned around them, Steve Finn and Brock Gowdy had a rule: keep smiling. It was January 2003, and the two partners at Brobeck Phleger & Harrison were seeing their world fall apart before their eyes.
      Brobeck, once one of the state's top law firms, had closed its doors and was facing bankruptcy. Shuttling b...

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