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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial&quot;&gt;As anyone with a law degree or a 415 area code knows by now, the boom finally dropped on Heller Ehrman yesterday, when Chairman Matt Larrabee announced the partnership&amp;#8217;s intention to dissolve the firm. Heller&amp;#8217;s demise, while certainly no shock in the wake of a revenue decrease in 2007 and a rash of partner departures over the last 18 months, came suddenly: Amid reports that last-ditch merger talks with Mayer Brown had floundered, roughly 15 partners from Heller&#39;s cornerstone IP department fled to Covington &amp;amp; Burling early last week, perhaps precipitating the firm&amp;#8217;s disintegration. With today&amp;#8217;s vote an apparent afterthought, and at least one blog already popping up to counsel (and console) survivors, it seems only fitting that we reflect briefly upon Heller&amp;#8217;s storied history&amp;#8230;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial&quot;&gt;Boasting San Francisco roots that run San Andreas-deep, Heller rode out the physical and economic turmoil that engulfed The City following the 1906 quake, going on to help secure financing for the Golden Gate and San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridges and take Levi Strauss public in 1971. While Heller continued to make its haul working an amorphous grouping of specialties through the turn of the century&amp;#8212;IP and M&amp;amp;A counted as recent revenue leaders&amp;#8212;the firm&amp;#8217;s most lasting achievement in the new millennium may well prove to be a product of its pro bono department: Working with a vast network of gay rights and civil liberties activists since 2004, Heller celebrated in May of this year when the California Supreme Court struck down the state&amp;#8217;s ban on same-sex marriage. (Heller antitrust partner Stephen Bomse&amp;#8217;s prediction for the morning after: &amp;#8220;A lot of people will be getting over a fairly massive hangover.&amp;#8221;) Debate over the issue, of course, rages on, and the court&amp;#8217;s decision isn&amp;#8217;t ironclad&amp;#8212;come November, Californians will vote on an initiative that would amend the state&amp;#8217;s constitution to prohibit same-sex unions. For the time being, however, the efforts of Bomse et al. stand tall&amp;#8212;even as their firm falls to its knees. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: right&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: right&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial&quot;&gt;- posted by ben fuchs&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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