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Cooley welcomes new partners

May 4, 2013
By John Michael

Cooley LLP hosted a welcome event for its new corporate partners, Kevin K. Rooney and Louis Lehot, on April 25 in the courtyar...


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Hogan Lovells partner Dean Hansell was awarded the first Founders Award from The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation...


Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP's Women Lawyers Group hosted, in conjunction with Step Up Women's Network, 50 high...


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Chile's Minister of Justice Patricia Pérez Goldberg addressed 226 graduates from California Western School of Law at a ceremon...


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San Diego-based Higgs Fletcher & Mack provided a $3,500 scholarship to California Western School of Law student Thomas Wan...


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Rutan & Tucker alumni recognized

May 4, 2013
By John Michael

Rutan & Tucker LLP hosted an alumni reception on April 26 to honor past and present attorneys at the Orange County-based l...


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In early April, Los Angeles held its ninth annual Mediation Awareness Week. Participants highlighted the importance and value ...


The Center for Civic Mediation posthumously awarded the Louis M. Brown Conflict Prevention Award to the late U.S. Ambassador J...


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The Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association held its 38th annual installation and awards banquet on April 5 at the Emp...


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California's Top IP Lawyers honored

Apr. 20, 2013
By John Michael

The Daily Journal hosted a reception Wednesday for California's best intellectual property lawyers. The event, at the Rosewood...


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Nina Shaw, founding partner at Del, Shaw, Moonves, Tanaka, Finkelstein & Lezcano, was honored as 2013 Entertainment Lawyer...


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Fabulous women of finance reunite

Apr. 20, 2013
By John Michael

The Fabulous Women of Finance networking group gathered on April 2 at downtown's Drago Centro to drink wine and meet fellow wo...


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Honoring volunteers

Apr. 20, 2013
By John Michael

The Bar Association of San Francisco's Justice and Diversity Center celebrated volunteers at an annual appreciation party on A...


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The Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Los Angeles County celebrated its 15th anniversary installation dinner at the Lo...


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The Friends of the Los Angeles County Law Library presented their annual Beacon of Justice Award to Judge Lee Smalley Edmon, f...


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South Asian Bar Association holds gala

Apr. 13, 2013
By John Michael

Members and friends of the South Asian Bar Association of Southern California convened in downtown Los Angeles in March to cel...


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Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson visited Thurgood Marshall Academic High School in San Francisco as pa...


From left: Pasadena Mayor Bob Bogaard, Foothill Unity Center executive director Betty McWilliams and lawyer Donald P. Schweitz...


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Ballard Spahr hosts housing conference

Apr. 6, 2013
By John Michael

Ballard Spahr LLP along with CSG Advisors held its 3rd Annual Western Housing Conference on March 22 at the Hyatt Regency Cent...


From left: Sharon F. Rubalcava, partner at Alston & Bird; Jacqueline Caster, director at Everychild Foundation; Sandra Phi...


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Women legal organization celebrates 20 years

Apr. 6, 2013
By John Michael

On March 21, the Asian Pacific American Women Lawyers Alliance held its first instillation dinner and celebrated 20 years of s...


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Western Justice Center and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held its annual Western Justice Center Peer Mediation Invitat...


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MCCA hosts San Diego Conference

Mar. 30, 2013
By John Michael

Earlier this month, the Minority Corporate Counsel Association hosted their 12th Annual CLE Expo in Southern California. The ...


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Akin Gump cycles for cancer research

Mar. 30, 2013
By John Michael

A team of Los Angeles-based Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorneys along with administrators and staff participated ...


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On March 11, the Los Angeles County Bar Association presented its 2013 Outstanding Corporate Counsel Award at the Millennium B...


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Glaser Weil partner honored in Beverly Hills

Mar. 23, 2013
By John Michael

American Friends of The Hebrew University awarded the national Scopus Award to Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Sha...


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A legal battle of the bands

Mar. 23, 2013
By John Michael

Lawyers by day, rock stars by night. That was the theme last Friday, March 1st, when seven bands made up of legal professiona...


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Kimberly Sheffield Deck was honored as the first ever recipient of the Warren Knight JAMS Peacemaker Award in January at the H...


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Anti-Defamation League honors attorneys

Mar. 23, 2013
By John Michael

The Anti-Defamation League held its annual Helene & Joseph Sherwood Prize for Combating Hate luncheon and awards ceremony ...


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IP law association hosts Judge's Night

Mar. 15, 2013
By John Michael

Chief Judge Randal A. Rader of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit headlined the annual Judge's Night gala, spon...