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Jan. 12, 2018

Sugar Plum Lawyer

Manatt associate Jessamyn Vedro is an accomplished ballerina who stuns colleagues with her performances in ‘The Nutcracker.’

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Vedro poses for her performance in "Cinderella" at the Pasadena Dance Theatre.

Los Angeles litigator Jessamyn Vedro didn’t care much for her first ballet class.

“I hated it,” the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP associate recalled, mentioning she was just 6 at the time. “I begged my mother to take me out.”

Vedro described that first course as a “Dolly Dinkle class,” an at-times pejorative classification for dance instruction focused heavily on pageantry and fun with tutus ...

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