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Public Interest

Aug. 8, 2009

S.F. Lawyer, L.A. Group Take Top ABA Honors

Gordon Erspamer of Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco and Manatt Phelps and Phillips's Holocaust Survivors Justiece Network were two of the five recipients of hte ABA's Pro Bono Publico awards this week.

By Sara Randazzo
Daily Journal Staff Writer

In its nationwide search to find lawyers doing remarkable pro bono work, the American Bar Association selected a California attorney and an organization to receive two of its five Pro Bono Public Awards, given out this week at the ABA's annual meeting held in Chicago.

Gordon Erspamer, senior counsel in Morrison & Foerster's San Francisco office, was one such recipient for his decades-long crusade to h...

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