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Are you interested in working on complex and challenging
cases while  practicing law in a small, collegial environment? Are
you ready to take significant responsibility in commercial disputes
where hundreds of millions - and sometimes billions - of dollars
are on the line? Are you interested in joining a firm that rewards
individual merit and results? If so, HBD may be the place for you.
Who are we? We are a firm of approximately forty-five
highly-credentialed and experienced lawyers, dedicated to resolving
the most difficult business problems with professionals skilled
in complex commercial litigation, bankruptcy and reorganization
matters, and intellectual property disputes. While we have chosen
to remain relatively small, we take on cases traditionally assigned
to law firms many times our size. We pride ourselves on delivering
innovative and practical solutions in a wide range of commercial
disputes of unusual size and complexity.
Have you heard of us? Perhaps not. We do not go
out of our way to promote ourselves. Rather, we think that the results
we achieve speak for themselves.
What results? We succeed in cases with the highest
of stakes by employing a unique combination of practice areas and
skills. For example, we represented Orange County, California, as
the lead reorganization counsel in connection with the largest municipal
bankruptcy in the history of the United States, involving the restructuring
of more than $10 billion in debt, and we achieved confirmation of
a plan of debt adjustment in just eighteen months. Recoveries under
that plan depended in part on litigation recoveries, and we served
as lead litigation counsel in fifteen resulting lawsuits filed against
Merrill Lynch and various financial advisors, attorneys, and accountants,
ultimately recovering more than $871 million on behalf of the County.
We have achieved similar synergistic success in many other matters,
and we gladly will provide you with a more detailed listing of our
various engagements upon request.
How do we do it? We achieve these results by integrating
our practice areas. Our lawyers actively participate in matters
originating in practice groups other than their primary area of
specialty. We also have our own professional staff of financial
analysts and forensic accountants, whom we involve in our cases
early and often.
 We have also made major investments in the most current computer
and communications tools, and we own state-of-the-art trial presentation
systems, video teleconferencing systems and graphics creation technologies.
We staff our cases leanly and are able to provide unusually interesting
work to our associates and outstanding, cost-effective legal service
to our clients. Our professionals have 24-hour real-time access
to millions of pages of digital documents from desktop computers,
firm-provided home computers, and portable computers on the road.
Finally, we actively seek compensation arrangements with clients
that promote efficient, successful lawyering, including contingent
and success fees in appropriate cases. Our firm culture is focused
on results, not hours billed. When results are achieved, everyone
prospers.
Sound interesting? We do not pretend to be nor
do we wish to be a "full-service, major firm." Rather,
we attract the best lawyers by offering a collegial, synergistic
professional environment and providing fascinating, high-stakes
work.
We seek attorneys with high levels of academic and professional
achievement, demonstrated personal responsibility and leadership,
integrity, and a desire for challenge and excitement in their legal
careers.
For more information, please contact Paula Bennett, our Recruiting
Director, at 213-694-1197.
Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman LLP does not discriminate on the
basis of race, sex, age, religious belief, sexual orientation, nationality,
disability, marital status, or any other ground prohibited by law.
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