The Stanford Dean recommended that San Francisco city attorney George Lull hire Dooling , who then worked at the city attorney 's office into the 1920s . In 1921 , he successfully represented the city before the Supreme Court of the United States in a case concerning the city 's power to remove an unpermitted house built in the 1906 fire zone . After leaving the city attorney , he began a private practice
1906 fire
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Maurice T. Dooling Jr.