COMMUNITY news nHiggs Fletcher & Mack announced today the hiring of its newest Associate, Gerissa S. Conforti, to its family law group. Conforti will play an important role in advising and counseling clients on family-related legal issues with an emphasis on delivering positive, costeffective results. Conforti comes to Higgs from the GERISSA S. CONFORTI Law Office of Michael Stephen Berg where she was an Associate Attorney. Prior to that, she worked for the Law Office of Kurt David Hermansen. Other experience includes working at the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office in its Writs and Appeals Unit. Conforti graduated from California Western School of Law in 2009 where she made the Dean’s Honor List, won the Academic Achievement Award in Sexuality and Law and was selected as the Commencement Ceremony Student Speaker. Conforti obtained her LLM in Trial Advocacy in 2011 from Cal Western and earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California, Riverside. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for California Western School of Law Alumni Association and California Attorney for Criminal Justice. nJason Evans, an associate attorney with San Diego-based CaseyGerry, has been elected vice chair of the San Diego County Bar Association’s (SDCBA) Forum for Emerging Lawyers, representing thousands of young lawyers throughout San Diego. As part of SDCBA Forum’s executive committee, Evans will serve a one-year term as 2015 vice JASON EVANS chair, followed by the 2016 chair appointment. In both capacities, he will concentrate on leading San Diego’s emerging lawyers through education, events and community outreach. Evans, who joined Casey Gerry in 2012, is a key member of the firm’s complex litigation team, focusing on consumer class actions, product liability and serious personal injury litigation. Active in the American Association for Justice, Consumer Attorneys of San Diego and the Lawyers Club of San Diego, he also serves on the board of directors for Youth Tennis San Diego, a non-profit organization dedicated to serving San Diego’s youth through educational and athletic programming, including hundreds of after-school-tennis programs.
nThe San Diego-based law firm of Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek has added Tamatha Clemens as of counsel to the firm’s family law practice. Clemens has over 17 years of legal experience in the area of family law. Her practice involves both settling and litigating all types of family law matters, including child custody and support issues, spousal TAMATHA CLEMENS support matters, division of property, domestic violence restraining orders, domestic partnerships and navigating through high-asset, complex family law matters. Prior to joining Seltzer Caplan, Clemens was an attorney with the Law Offices of Sandra Joan Morris. Clemens is a member of the San Diego County Bar Association and State Bar of California. She is also active in the Lawyers Club of San Diego and volunteers with the organization’s annual Read-In at Central Elementary School. She received her J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and a B.A. from the University of California, Riverside. nWilson Turner Kosmo LLP is pleased to announce that Robin Wofford has been appointed chair of The National Association of Minority & Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF). NAMWOLF is a national, nonprofit organization that promotes diversity and equality in the legal profession by fostering successful ROBIN WOFFORD relationships among preeminent minority- and women-owned law firms and private/public entities. Wofford has been active in NAMWOLF for over ten years. She has served on the organization’s board of directors for three years and has spearheaded many committees and cochaired annual and business meetings. As chair of NAMWOLF, Wofford will oversee a diverse board of directors as NAMWOLF continues to grow and establish itself as a leader in promoting diversity and inclusion in the legal profession. NAMWOLF currently has almost 130 law firm members, covering 36 states. The organization continues to recruit new members to join NAMWOLF and corporate and public entity partners to utilize these talented firms. Wofford is a partner at Wilson Turner Kosmo and has over 25 years of trial experience. Her practice focuses on employment and general business litigation.
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