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Nov. 14, 2010

Robert Patison

Executive vice president and general counsel Lucas Oil Corona

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By Gabe Friedman

Daily Journal Staff Writer

Robert Patison was working his first job out of law school - a small, now-defunct firm in Anaheim - when he met Forrest Lucas in 1985. It was the beginning of a business relationship that would change his life.

Lucas at the time was running a long-haul trucking business out of Indiana, but needed a lawyer in California to handle a legal flap related to some unpaid invoices.

The partners at Patison's... (continued)

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