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The New Lawyer Supplement

Nov. 25, 2008

Heller Confidential

Adil Haq was a first-year associate in Heller Ehrman’s San Francisco office. He looks back for signs that the venerable firm was about to go under.

By Adil Haq

On Oct. 15, 2007, I walked into the tastefully appointed foyer of Heller Ehrman's San Francisco office to begin my tenure as an associate in the firm's complex commercial litigation group. My first day of work was unremarkable, spent, as it was, mulling over tax forms and risk management materials. But underlying the mundanity of these tasks was a palpable sense of excitement: After three years of law school and the ardor of the bar exam, my fellow associate...

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