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Large Firms

Mar. 6, 1999

Partner Leaves Perkins Coie Over Conflict

SAN FRANCISCO - Perkins Coie partner Spencer Hosie has resigned from the firm because of a client conflict of interest. Hosie had been a partner at Hosie Wes Sacks & Brelsford when the firm merged in October with Seattle-based Perkins Coie. Before the merger, Hosie was selected by the state of Hawaii to represent it in an antitrust suit against several large oil companies, including Tosco. It turns out that Perkins Coie was already representing Tosco in an employment suit - Shea v.

By Leslie A. Gordon
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - Perkins Coie partner Spencer Hosie has resigned from the firm because of a client conflict of interest.
        Hosie had been a partner at Hosie Wes Sacks & Brelsford when the firm merged in October with Seattle-based Perkins Coie. Before...

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