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Jul. 25, 2022

Trail Mates

The founding partners at Cheong & Denove have shared a shingle for more than four decades.

Wilkie Cheong and John 'Jack' Denove pose with their horses in Calabasas on July 17, 2022. Justin L. Stewart / Special to the Daily Journal

​​Longtime business litigator Wilkie Cheong has a plain-spoken understanding of horses.

“There’s no deceit in horses,” he explained. “They can be unpredictable, but they are what they are, and they’ll do anything for you. If you’re nice to them, they’ll be nice to you.”

A past president of the Cowboy Lawyers Association, Cheong has spent a sizable chunk of the last 30-plus years escaping ... (continued)

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