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Nov. 28, 2014

Shared Opportunities

Lisa G. Sherman started her own employment firm last year, adopting a unique and collaborative business strategy that keeps co-counsel close at hand and costs down for clients.

By Melanie Brisbon

Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - In 2007, Lisa G. Sherman was the general counsel for HRN Services Inc., a multimillion-dollar nurse staffing agency in Beverly Hills with thousands of employees. There, she supervised a team of outside counsel - "12 to 15 of them, all [at] 800 bucks an hour" - until she fired all of them but one.

Jon M. Leader of Leader Counsel offered a similar range of services as her other outside c... (continued)

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