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State Bar & Bar Associations

Oct. 31, 2013

Decades ago, bar association's launch filled legal niche

The statewide Association of Business Trial Lawyers is celebrating its 40th anniversary of bringing together attorneys and judges to discuss business litigation issues.


By Kylie Reynolds


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Forty years ago, business trial lawyers in Los Angeles lacked the same opportunities as other specialists to interact and exchange ideas about the bar. Unlike personal injury or defense attorneys, at the time they were without a professional group that catered to their specific interests.


So in 1973, a cadre of business litigators led by Allan Browne, founding partner of Browne George Ross LLP, form...

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