From left to right: Daniel Wallengren, Brim Leal, Jessica Alonso, Amelia Lewis, Marcella Sanchez-Villa, Serene Nasser, Vanessa Cardinale, Michael Stodolka, John Shaver, Ralph Kalfayan, Vic Merjanian, Ed Merjanian, Radcliff Misseri, Selena Sharpe, Ryan Khalili, Lindsey Umagat, Eduardo Juarez, Amairani Salmeron, Ashley Fattah, Ava Vahdat
Vic A. Merjanian, Esq. – Managing Partner Merjanian received a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from University of California, San Diego with a 4.0 major GPA and earned his Juris Doctor from the University of San Diego, School of Law. He served as co-founder and editor-in-chief of the inaugural edition of The San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law, the nation’s first student-run climate change and renewable energy law journal. He is the founder and managing partner of Kalfayan Merjanian LLP’s Newport Beach office. His primary practice areas include antitrust, business litigation, civil litigation, and personal injury. His affiliations include the American Bar Association, the Orange County Bar Association, the San Diego County Bar Association, and the Armenian Bar Association. He is admitted
to practice before all courts in the State of California and before the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California. Merjanian serves as a Board Member of the Board of Directors for Two Wings, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating, mentoring and life coaching to empower at-risk youth and survivors of sex trafficking. Previously, he served as a co-founder and leader of a community group in San Diego dedicated to assisting the families of deployed military personnel. He is also a member of Surfrider Foundation. He is fluent in Armenian and is also proficient in basic Spanish and has classical training in piano, music theory, and guitar. “My partner and I worked together for several years. As we continued to work together, our mutual respect and admiration of each other continued to grow. At the same time, more and more opportunities came our way to help people through our legal services, and outside of legal services in the other companies we own together. It was a natural transition, or rather growth and evolution of what we already had,” Merjanian says.
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