When Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison’s chief information officer, Martin Metz, left the San Francisco firm to start his own company in August 1999, Brobeck had a hard time filling his shoes. Metz knew technology and worked as hard as a lot of the firm’s lawyers. He had the confidence of the firm’s management. Brobeck wanted to be just as comfortable with his successor. After a long interval, Brobeck found Jonathan Wong at Banc of America Securities LLC. “We searched for a year for someone as accomplished as Jonathan,” says James Burns Jr., Brobeck’s managing partner, “and once we hired him, we were determined to let him do his job.”
On Sept. 18, 2001, Wong had the chance to prove himself. At 5 a.m., Wong got an urgent call from Brobeck’s office. Nimda, a new, intensely virulent computer virus, was winding its way through Asia and likely heading toward North America.
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