Alternative Dispute Resolution
Jan. 22, 2010
Legal Legacy Started with a Friendly Wager
Judge-turned-arbitrator Richard P. "Skip" Byrne traces his family's long history in the legal profession back to a bet his grandfather made to a cousin.
By Susan McRae
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - It all started with a bet.
Richard P. "Skip" Byrne, part of California's well-known Byrne dynasty of judges and lawyers, said the succession of family members in the legal profession began with a wager his grandfather made to a cousin, Bill Byrne, a prizefighter in Oakland.
The way Byrne tells it, his grandfather, a conductor on the Southern Pac...
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