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Law Practice

Jun. 25, 2010

Finding and Returning to Ground

After opening a law firm as a newly admitted attorney, Timothy Tosta of Luce Forward learned some lessons about dealing with chaos.

Timothy A. Tosta

Arent Fox LLP

Email: tim.tosta@arentfox.com

For reasons still not fully understood by me, I chose to open my own law office immediately upon graduating from Boalt Hall (University of California, Berkeley School of Law) in 1974. Irrespective of what compelled me to that decision, the early years of "flying by the seat of my pants" taught me a number of invaluable lessons that have served me well to this day.

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