Los AngelesSilicon Valley may have monopolised the headlines in the late 1990s, but the ripple effects of the technology boom spread far further afield.

In Los Angeles the four major law firms – Latham & Watkins, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, O’Melveny & Myers and New York-based Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom – were also capitalising on a seemingly unending flow of technology work from California’s entrepreneurs. So why was it not making the news?