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JEFFREY LENKOV
Lawyer Without Limits WRITTEN BY SARAH TORRES
PHOTOGRAPHED BY HUGH WILLIAMS
Attorney Je rey Lenkov has a lot of attributes in his wheel- house. Fear of the unknown isn’t one of them.
A partner in the Los Angeles o ce of Manning & Kass since 2000, Lenkov throughout his career has boldly gone where many attorneys don’t dare to venture: multiple seemingly unrelated disciplines inside the courtroom and out—practically on a dai-
ly basis.
“I’m not the typical lawyer who has only one specialty,” says Lenkov. “In the morning, I could be in a deposition on a food-borne illness case, then I’m consulting an employer on a termination. In the a ernoon I could be attending a site inspection on a trucking accident fatality. And then in
the evening I’m at a business dinner.”
THE THRILL OF IT ALL
Keeping things interesting was always in the plans, Lenkov says, but it took conscious e ort to venture outside the lines of prede ned practice that many lawyers nd themselves in
today.
“When I was a young lawyer I wanted to be able do many
things,” he says. “I wanted to be able to shoot a 3-pointer and also dunk. So I sort of—out necessity or survival—built a prac- tice defending di erent areas of law that most people would have shied away from.”
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