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Government

Jan. 14, 2012

A primetime effort to get business

The height of the worst recession in decades isn't the most opportune time to leave a secure job to strike out on one's own.


By David McAfee


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - The height of the worst recession in decades isn't the most opportune time to leave a secure job to strike out on one's own. But that's exactly what Louis J. Shapiro did in 2010 when he left the Los Angeles County public defender's office, where he had worked for four years, to start a solo criminal defense practice.


"I knew that it wasn't going to be easy,"...

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