Firm Watch
May 31, 2007
'Street Fighter' Wins Honor for Long Shot
Plaintiffs’ attorney Christopher Dolan is known as a “street fighter” and isn’t afraid to take long-shot cases. A recent $61 million jury verdict helped him earn the Trial Lawyer of the Year Award from the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association. “I grew up hard,” Dolan says. “But I am Irish, I am stubborn, and I didn’t give up.”
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The case was such a long shot that a dozen law firms and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People turned it down.
But San Francisco plaintiffs' lawyer Christopher B. Dolan, known among colleagues as a street fighter of a litigator, took it on.
Why?
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