Oh no, please don't. I was just making a comment, because it has been an ongoing sore spot about the 1994 date. HKS says 1996 and I said 1996 from my checking, so I'm going with 1996. That's all - no need to butt out!
Last night, while going through transcripts to update my List, I got distracted onto side stories, as I always do.
I remembered I had an old CD of business listings from 1994-95 (tho it's called the "1996 Edition"). They were from about Feb 94 to about Aug 95, as far as when the individual listings were added to the database.
I wanted to see where HKS was back then - but he wasn't listed, at least not as Howard K. Stern. I tried looking it up every which way - all Sterns in L.A., all "Stern" Law Offices or Law Offices of HKS, so on and so forth.
Some here heard him say someplace that there had been a law firm of Stern Rale and Khavarian. I didn't hear that directly, so I have indicated as such whenever I've listed that. The three were "allegedly" partners.
OK. So, without a direct Stern to figure out, I went on to Ron Rale. He was at 433 N Camden Dr. in Beverly Hills, an address which has come up before in ANS sleuthing. (Currently he is at 12121 Wilshire Blvd with Trope and Trope, and also as his own independent PC address.)
Then I went to Khavarian and found that the Law Offices of Kooros J. Khavarian were also at the same Camden Dr. address. I didn't have suite numbers to compare, so not sure if they were really in the same bldg together or had an exec suite there. I *assumed* they were officing in the same bldg and knew each other.
(Funny, Khavarian was listed as Law Offices, but his notation was that he was an Importer and Wholesaler.)
I woulda had a trifecta if Stern had been in that building, too. Alas, couldn't find him. Nor could I find Dave Shebby, even in the whole directory - the only one we've heard from that we know for sure was one of HKS's early law partners.
However, there was a law firm in the building called Pearl & Stern. I turned everything upside down trying to determine "who" Pearl and "who" Stern were listed here, but could not find that out. No company or LLC or LP by that name or any variations in CA. No attorneys named Pearl or Stern listed separately anywhere.
I finally decided to try to narrow down the Pearl's because it was a less common name. Weeded out all but one, from the CA bar files. This last Pearl standing is named Steven, but I can't put him together in any way with HKS, since he isn't listed in that building.
Nope, in 1994-95 *that* Pearl had his office in Khris Eroshevich's building in Encino, where she still lists her office, at 16133 Ventura Blvd. She's on 12th floor and he was on 6th. Pearl has moved to another place down the street since then, as The Pearl Law Firm, but I got such a chuckle over that coincidence. Who knows - maybe it's the right one, maybe not.
There was also a Stern & Ross law firm, but I found that was a female Stern, no relation, and there was a Stern & Miller law firm, with no address, just an L.A. phone number. I cross-checked all the phone numbers I had for everybody, too - never got any matches or any even close ones.
Freydl was on Century Park East, as was the female Stern one. The Ross in that one is not the Bruce Ross we see on the case now. There were several other Pearl's who might have been the partner, but seemed either too old or too far afield from the little tight circle these players always keep to.
At any rate, I have less info than I thought I would when I started into it.