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Dec. 6, 2013

Personal Touch

Pasadena-based Richardson Harman Ober PC, which handles homeowners association, real estate and employment law, only hires attorneys it knows after a long interview process.

By Kylie Reynolds

Daily Journal Staff Writer

Richardson Harman Ober PC's measured growth over the past two decades - from two attorneys to 11 - says a thing or two about what its founders had in mind for the Pasadena-based office: The partners try to hire only attorneys they know personally.

"You can train people to learn the law, train them to be an effective advocate, but you can't train character," said founding partner Kelly G. Rich... (continued)

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