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In-N-Out Burgers Inc. has ordered the public image equivalent of a double-double.

The fast food chain employs L.A.'s top crisis management firm. Sitrick and Co., which is helping handle the fallout from its legal problems.

Long-time corporate vice president and board member Richard Boyd Richard Boyd (Ph.D. MIT 1970) is a philosopher who has spent most of his career at Cornell University, though he also taught briefly at Harvard University and the University of Michigan.

He is well known in philosophy of science circles as a realist.
 was terminated and removed from the board at a meeting last week.

Boyd is co-trustee for three masts that hold In-N-Out stock. The beneficiary ultimately will be In-N-Out matriarch Esther Snyder's primary heir, Lynsi Martinez. Boyd alleged in suits flied late last year that Martinez was trying to oust him from the company and take over. In-N-Out responded by filing a suit Jan. 10 accusing Boyd of embezzlement embezzlement, wrongful use, for one's own selfish ends, of the property of another when that property has been legally entrusted to one. Such an act was not larceny at common law because larceny was committed only when property was acquired by a "felonious taking," i.  and fraud, including the use of company construction crews for work at his home.

Sitrick has represented a number of high-profile clients including Rush Limbaugh Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (born January 12, 1951) is an American conservative radio talk show host and political commentator. Born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, he is a self-described conservative, who discusses politics and current events on his program, , Paula Poundstone Paula Poundstone (born December 29, 1959 in Huntsville, Alabama) is an American stand-up comic. She is known for her quiet, self-deprecating style, political observations, and her trademark suit and tie outfit. , Eminem. Roy Disney and Marvin Davis.
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Title Annotation:LAW; In-N-Out Burgers Inc. hires Sitrick and Co.
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Author:York, Emily Bryson
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
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Date:Feb 6, 2006
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