When you think of the former Marine Purple Heart recipient who prosecuted Oliver North in the Iran-Contra scandal and has spent his career defending celebrities and business executives, you don’t necessarily think “public-agency counsel.”
But when a San Diego water authority launched a legal challenge over billing rates, John Keker stepped in. “It’s part of the water wars of Southern California,” said Keker, who co-founded San Francisco litigation boutique Keker & Van Nest in 1978. “Who wouldn’t want to be involved in the water wars? It’s ‘Chinatown’ sort of stuff.”
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