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Marni Byrum
1973 James J. Di Cesare, a judge on the Orange County Superior Court, was presented the Jerrold Oliver Memorial Award by the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association on January 10, 2009. The award is presented annually to a judge whose career reflects judicial integrity, compassion, and courage.
1974 Doris M. Felman retired after 20 years as deputy city attorney for the City of Santa Ana, California. She subsequently trained to be a touring docent for the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, California.
1978 James Henderson published the book Indicted! The People versus the Medical and Drug Cartel.
1978 Marni Byrum was recently awarded one of Virginia Tech's Alumni Distinguished Service Awards for 2009. She is an attorney in private practice with emphasis on labor, employment, and personnel law. She often lectures on labor and employment issues and was an adjunct faculty member at Washington College of Law at American University. She is a member of the Boyd Graves Conference and a master of the George Mason Inns of Court. P E P P E R D I N E L AW
Jeffery D. Palumbo
Nicholas R. Andrea
1980
Lance Bridgesmith
1984
Jeffery D. Palumbo was made partner at Damon & Morey LLP in Buffalo, New York. He concentrates his practice on a wide variety of environmental and real estate issues, including real estate development, land use planning, use and area variances, zonings, site plan and subdivision approvals, residential and commercial sales, state regulatory procedures, as well as various other real estate-related matters.
1982 Les Bowron has lived in Nashville, Tennessee, for eight years, where he has tried his hand at songwriting. He was happy to receive a letter that did not begin with, “We regret to inform you,” when the CBS daytime soap opera The Young And The Restless played his song “How Far Can You Run From Love?” on the air on June 4, 2008.
1983 Edwin Estes, Jr., has been named coordinator for the real estate program at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, California. A California real estate broker and member of the State Bar of California, he joined Mt. San Antonio College in 2008 as a full-time faculty member.
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David DePaolo founded WorkCompCentral, a news and education resource for workers’ compensation law in 1999. He remains CEO and president.
1988 Matthew Fisk and his wife Emiko welcomed their son Kansha Samuel on November 16, 2008, in Tokyo, Japan. Fisk practices as foreign counsel at the Ishii Law Office. Eileen Lavigne Flug lives in Westport, Connecticut, where she is active in local government. She is married and has two children.
1989 Kevin Fillo is the general counsel at Numonyx B.V., a semiconductor company headquartered in Rolle, Switzerland. Dario G. Dalla Lasta works for the director of business affairs at Richard Frankel Productions, a company that produces and manages Broadway shows such as Gypsy, Young Frankenstein, and Hairspray. He also works as a DJ throughout the Manhattan and Brooklyn areas of New York City, New York.