Several lawyers from the Bridgeport firm of Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder spent six months in Los Angeles as part of a plaintiffs legal team representing the family of Michael Jackson in a wrongful death lawsuit against the pop star’s promoter.

The bad news for the Bridgeport bunch is the high-profile trial resulted in a defense verdict. But on the plus side, Bill Bloss and his colleagues got a full blast of what it’s like to live on the left coast.