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Jun. 13, 2022

Ringing the Bell

Plaintiffs employment law boutique Alexander Morrison + Fehr works to get awards sufficiently large to get the attention of the employer.

Michael Morrison, Tracy Fehr, Bernard Alexander and Joshua M. Arnold. Justin L. Stewart / Special to the Daily Journal

Longtime trial attorney J. Bernard Alexander III landed his first law firm job when he was a freshman in high school.

"I was basically the assistant to the secretary," Alexander recalled, noting he did a great deal of photocopying and working on typewriters was still commonplace. "I was the one taking the Wite-Out and whiting up so you could go back and correct mistakes. That's the level of sophistication of work I was doing."<... (continued)

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