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Richard,
I included a copy of the Berg anti-trust and unfair competition complaint filed by Tom Girardi and others in Los Angeles. Tom Girardi is the single best plaintiff's lawyer in southern California. You may recall his results against PG&E, Lockheed etc. where recovered billions of dollars. He is well funded and has really good lawyers that work for him. He is reputed to have close associations with many state court judges in Los Angeles. Both Dick Odom and Michael Molland have been opposite Tom Girardi for other clients. Dick represented Roberts & Stevens in a complicated securities case Fightertown v. Roberts & Stevens that was tried for 8 weeks. Tom Girardi posted $320M as damages in the case. He received a verdict of $7.0M which was eliminated by Dick's motion for JNOV. Dick is one of the very few trial lawyers that have gone head to head with Tom in significant trial and won. Dick was recently retained in another case where Tom Girardi is the plaintiff's lawyer. Apparently, we knew somebody who happened to be with Tom Girardi when he received Brobeck's appearance. His comment was something to the effect of "Oh shit. Not those bastards again." Not many defendants have the courage to take a case where Girardi is the plaintiff's counsel to trial. Very few of the companies that have taken him to trial have won. Mike Molland has also had several cases opposite Tom Girardi where Michael represented Browning Ferris Industries as its lead trial lawyer in the mid 1990s in the serial litigation that arose from the waste disposal crisis in Los Angeles County during that time. Girardi's firm sued BFI in those and other cases during that time. Michael was able to get BFI dismissed from all but one of those cases early in the process. The other case was stayed. I know we did not discuss these capabilities when you and Jim were in San Francisco --in large part, because we did not have the Berg complaint in hand at the time. If Enron is considering lining up local counsel in Los Angeles in the event that it is brought into the Berg case, I hope that you will consider Dick. Thanks Gary ======================================================= This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to postmaster@brobeck.com BROBECK PHLEGER & HARRISON LLP http://www.brobeck.com
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