LAW OFFICES OF DOUGLAS A - Key Persons
Barbara Jean Carnegie Cooke, the wife of Jack Kent Cooke, in a dissolution of marriage of proceeding in which the parties owned, among other assets, the Los Angeles Lakers, the Los Angeles Kings, the Forum of Inglewood, and 87% of the Washington Redskins. [After three years of vigorous litigation with some of the top lawyers in the country, including two major firms in California, the settlement for Mrs. Cooke was reported to be the Guinness Book of World Records largest settlement at the time.];
James Irvine of Orange County, California, in a dissolution trial in San Diego, California, involving substantial custody, property and support issues, with the Court concluding following trial that virtually all of the property acquired by the parties was the separate property of Mr. Irvine and, most importantly, Mr. Irvine was successful in establishing and maintaining an extremely close relationship with his two children that has been, by far, the most important result of the proceedings to him and to them;