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Sep. 2, 2010

A. Howard Matz

U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz applies the lessons of his mentor, Morris Lasker, by guiding a new generation of young attorneys.

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By Evan George

Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - The first time U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz received career advice from a practicing lawyer was while he was sitting shiva for his mother, who died in 1962. Matz was 18.

A family friend giving the advice was a "gopher" for the notorious Democratic Party machine in King's County, N.Y., during the 1940s and 1950s.

"He tried to talk me out of it," Matz recalled. &q... (continued)

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