by Charlie Meeker | Nov 25, 2010 | Charlie's Stories |
In July 1975, about two months after we had first met, Molly and I were walking in a shopping area near the Los Angeles Airport and passed a home winemaking shop. There was a sign taped besides the entrance: “ORDER YOUR NAPA WINE GRAPES NOW!” Molly saw the...
by Charlie Meeker | Oct 25, 2010 | Charlie's Stories |
If there’s a point where I first jumped onto the slippery slope that some call “getting into the wine business”, it probably 1975. I was still practicing law with O’Melveny & Myers, but by then I’d moved from the Corporate Department...
by Charlie Meeker | Sep 25, 2010 | Charlie's Stories |
After graduating from Princeton University in 1964 and from the University of Texas School of Law at Austin in 1967, I accepted a one-year clerkship position with Judge Walter Ely of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, whose chambers were in Los...