Marina Z. Beck, ‘11

Associate Professor for the academic component of criminal law related student externships for the Externship Office. She maintains memberships in the California Bar Association and the Armenian Bar Association.

Partner, Elkins Kalt mbeck@elkinskalt.com | (310) 746-4432

Marina Beck began her family law training in law school, during a two year externship at the Los Angeles Superior Court. Ms. Beck has practiced family law exclusively since passing the bar in 2011, becoming the youngest partner at Kolodny Law Group in 2018. Ms. Beck’s practice focuses on sophisticated marital dissolution issues, including complex financial and property issues, high income support issues and complex custody matters, including international custody disputes (Hague Convention). She has also represented numerous clients in paternity and Domestic Violence Prevention Act matters. Ms. Beck has handled high profile cases with national and international issues and consequences, representing high net worth individuals in many different fields, including entertainment and sports figures, tech and business executives, philanthropists, doctors, attorneys, and their spouses. These matters often encompass business/commercial contracts, entertainment, intellectual property and trade secrets disputes, entertainment and complex business matters and division of assets covered therein.

Ms. Beck is on the faculty of the National Family Law Trial Institute, which includes the top family law litigators, jurists and forensic experts from across the country, focused on development of an advanced litigation skills course dedicated exclusively to family law. She holds memberships in the LA County Bar Association, Family Law Section and the Beverly Hills Bar Association, Family Law Section. She is fluent in Russian and has been recognized as a Southern California Super Lawyer’s Rising Star in 2018-2020.

Ally Bolour, ‘96

Founding & Managing Partner, Bolour/Carl Immigration Group ally@americanvisas.net | (323) 857-0034

Ally Bolour has been practicing immigration law since 1996. He is the Founding and Managing Partner at Bolour/Carl Immigration Group, a full-service immigration law firm in Los Angeles. Mr. Bolour is currently an Elected Director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and has previously served on the Board of Trustees at the American Immigration Council. He also holds 6