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 receives award from GLAAD for service
By John Michael
Hogan Lovells partner Dean Hansell was awarded the first Founders Award from The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation...
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Sheppard Mullin hosts event for high school girls with Step Up Women's Network
By John Michael
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP's Women Lawyers Group hosted, in conjunction with Step Up Women's Network, 50 high...
Chile's Minister of Justice Patricia Pérez Goldberg addressed 226 graduates from California Western School of Law at a ceremon...
San Diego-based Higgs Fletcher & Mack provided a $3,500 scholarship to California Western School of Law student Thomas Wan...
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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Los Angeles holds awareness week to highlight mediation
By John Michael
In early April, Los Angeles held its ninth annual Mediation Awareness Week. Participants highlighted the importance and value ...
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Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens honored by Center for Civic Mediation
By John Michael
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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Lawyers association holds awards banquet and installation ceremony
By John Michael
The Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association held its 38th annual installation and awards banquet on April 5 at the Emp...
The Daily Journal hosted a reception Wednesday for California's best intellectual property lawyers. The event, at the Rosewood...
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Beverly Hills Bar honors Entertainment Lawyer of the Year
By John Michael
Nina Shaw, founding partner at Del, Shaw, Moonves, Tanaka, Finkelstein & Lezcano, was honored as 2013 Entertainment Lawyer...
The Fabulous Women of Finance networking group gathered on April 2 at downtown's Drago Centro to drink wine and meet fellow wo...
The Bar Association of San Francisco's Justice and Diversity Center celebrated volunteers at an annual appreciation party on A...
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Asian Pacific bar association celebrates 15th anniversary
By John Michael
The Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Los Angeles County celebrated its 15th anniversary installation dinner at the Lo...
The Friends of the Los Angeles County Law Library presented their annual Beacon of Justice Award to Judge Lee Smalley Edmon, f...
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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Judge Thelton Henderson speaks with high school about the law
By John Michael
Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson visited Thurgood Marshall Academic High School in San Francisco as pa...
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From left: Pasadena Mayor Bob Bogaard, Foothill Unity Center executive director Betty McWilliams and lawyer Donald P. Schweitz...
Ballard Spahr LLP along with CSG Advisors held its 3rd Annual Western Housing Conference on March 22 at the Hyatt Regency Cent...
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Alston & Bird LLP honors women of distinction at its annual reception
By John Michael
From left: Sharon F. Rubalcava, partner at Alston & Bird; Jacqueline Caster, director at Everychild Foundation; Sandra Phi...
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 teams up with 9th Circuit to help kids mediate
By John Michael
Western Justice Center and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held its annual Western Justice Center Peer Mediation Invitat...
Earlier this month, the Minority Corporate Counsel Association hosted their 12th Annual CLE Expo in Southern California. The ...
A team of Los Angeles-based Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorneys along with administrators and staff participated ...
On March 11, the Los Angeles County Bar Association presented its 2013 Outstanding Corporate Counsel Award at the Millennium B...
American Friends of The Hebrew University awarded the national Scopus Award to Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Sha...
Lawyers by day, rock stars by night. That was the theme last Friday, March 1st, when seven bands made up of legal professiona...
Kimberly Sheffield Deck was honored as the first ever recipient of the Warren Knight JAMS Peacemaker Award in January at the H...
The Anti-Defamation League held its annual Helene & Joseph Sherwood Prize for Combating Hate luncheon and awards ceremony ...
Chief Judge Randal A. Rader of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit headlined the annual Judge's Night gala, spon...