Out of the rubble of the latest failed merger in Los Angeles, one lawyer has emerged: Marc Dreier, whose New York firm has ambitious West Coast plans to hire more than 30 lawyers from Santa Monica, Calif.-based Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan, including name partners Stanton "Larry" Stein and Robert Kahan. And he's not stopping there. Dreier, founder and managing partner of New York-based Dreier, said he wants to build a 100-lawyer affiliate firm in Los Angeles. The move would double the size of his 10-year-old firm, which he built through a collection of independent affiliate firms and recent hires, such as last month's arrival of four lawyers from Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman. "My plan is to have a bicoastal practice in New York and Los Angeles," Dreier said....