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Oct. 31, 2014

Bassi Edlin Huie & Blum gets back to basics

The San Francisco-based firm maintains a focus on reading and understanding the documents in a case or ensuring every brief is reviewed for style, grammar and clarity.

By Fiona Smith

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - When corporate giant Georgia-Pacific LLC sued the city of Fort Bragg seeking millions toward cleanup of a polluted lumber mill, the city's attorneys at Bassi Edlin Huie & Blum LLP were up against a wall - a wall of paper. To prepare the case they had to sift through 11 million documents, the largest number the firm's attorneys had seen, and so they decided to try something different.

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