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Apr. 27, 2012

Bien & Summers

Like many appellate lawyers, Elliot L. Bien is a bit of a loner, working from a home office, using a for-hire law library and expanding or contracting his two-attorney firm, Bien & Summers, as business waxes and wanes.

By John Roemer

Daily Journal Staff Writer

Like many appellate lawyers, Elliot L. Bien is a bit of a loner, working from a home office, using a for-hire law library and expanding or contracting his two-attorney firm, Bien & Summers, as business waxes and wanes.

Bien, 66, shapes his career to fit the style of the courts of appeal before which he practices.

"Appellate judges sit up in their chambers looking from a distance at the law and ma... (continued)

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