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Jan. 19, 2010

Making the Leap

Allen B. Grodsky likened starting a new firm to being a trapeze artist: You must let go of the old and trust the new will be there to meet you.

By Susan McRae

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SANTA MONICA - The first time Michael J. Olecki met Allen B. Grodsky, his future law partner was playing Nerf baseball with some other lawyers in the hallway of their former firm, Browne & Woods. That was in 1990.

"That was sort of a nice little break in the middle of the day," Olecki recalled.

By the time Olecki left the firm in 2004 to join Grodsky, who had departed a year earlier ... (continued)

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