Class Notes brings a wealth of knowledge in sales management, as well as legal experience, most recently in executive roles at Aspect Software, IBM, Sun, and Apple.
ner. He brings 25 years of experience to the firm, which defends clients against toxic tort, environmental law, business litigation, product liability, construction law, and employment law claims. Timothy defends corporate, municipal, and individual clients in complex employment issues and also handles environmental litigation and construction law matters.
Allan will help the organization expand its efforts in Southern California. Selected by The Daily Journal as one of the state’s Top 50 Development Lawyers, he is consistently ranked as one of the world’s leading project finance lawyers by Chambers Global, IFLR, and Legal500. Allan is also a lecturer at Berkeley Law and serves on the advisory board of the school’s East Bay Community Law Center.
1990
Peter Reich, professor of law at Whittier Law School, coached Whittier’s student team to a second-place finish in the State Bar of California Environmental Negotiations Competition for 2016. A member of the Whittier faculty since 1988, Peter directs the school’s Environmental Law Concentration, as well as its Mexico City Program at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Marc Zeppetello began serving as chief counsel of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission in September 2015.
1987
Timothy Moppin, president of the Bar Association of San Francisco, has joined Bassi Edlin Huie & Blum as a part64 TRANSCRIPT SPRING 2016
Renata Hesse was tapped by U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to head the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. She had served as the division’s Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Criminal and Civil Operations for almost four years. A trial attorney in the division between 1997 and 2006, Renata spent the last four of those years leading its Networks and Technology Section. She has also served as a senior counsel to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and oversaw the agency’s review of AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile. Allan Marks was named to the board of directors of the Family Violence Appellate Project, California’s only nonprofit dedicated to appealing cases on behalf of domestic violence survivors and their children. A partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy’s Los Angeles office,
and technology-based client companies. Robert O’Brien launched Larson and O’Brien, a litigation boutique firm, with 10 other lawyers. He and Stephen Larson are the name partners. The firm will focus on complex litigation, internal investigations and white-collar matters, arbitration, and state and federal appellate work. A former U.S. Representative to the U.N. General Assembly, Robert is the former California managing partner of a national firm and grew its office from 10 lawyers to more than 100 in seven years. He has represented clients in numerous high-profile litigation matters, and The Daily Journal named him one of California’s Top 100 lawyers.
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Eric Loumeau was appointed general counsel and chief compliance officer at Otonomy, Inc., a clinicalstage biopharmaceutical company. Otonomy focuses on the development and commercialization of innovative therapeutics for diseases and disorders of the inner and middle ear. Eric has more than 23 years’ experience as in-house legal counsel and compliance officer for several biopharmaceutical companies, and as outside corporate counsel supporting health care
Rachel Lerman was elected vice president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, a national civil rights organization based in Washington, D.C., that is known for its work fighting anti-Semitism in higher education. She has served on the organization’s board of directors and legal advisory board since 2012. A partner in Barnes & Thornburg’s Los Angeles office, Rachel co-chairs its appellate practice group. Listed in The Best Lawyers in America and named to Los Angeles Magazine’s “Super Lawyers” list every year from 2003 through 2015, she also received the