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: Legal Pad | LAJeffer Mangels partners and associates leave to form Elkins Kalt
By Richard Binder
Last May, three Irell & Manella partners left the firm to form their own. Now comes news of ten lawyers, including six partners, who have left Los Angeles-based Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro to strike out on their own as well.
Keith Elkins, a former Jeffer Mangels partner who is now name partner at Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside, said that alternative billing structures played a role in the group's decision to start their own firm. Coincidentally (or not), a similar reason was given by the former Irell partners for beginning their new firm.
In addition to Elkins, the founding partners are Scott Kalt, Bill Weintraub, Jeff Reuben, Fred Gartside and Jeff Riffer. On Jan. 4, four associates, Ray Friedman, Tom Levy, Chris Whitt and Kristi Kirksey, joined from Jeffer Mangels. Friedman and Levy are now partners at the new firm, and Whitt and Kirksey are associates.
The new firm opened on Jan. 1.
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on January 05, 2010 (boomark / email).
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