Bokhour

Magazine has identified him as one of the top music lawyers in the business, and he has been repeatedly honored as a Southern California Super Lawyer. Active in a variety of pro bono legal work, Professor Tehranian has regularly represented immigrants, civil rights plaintiffs and indigent criminal defendants.

A graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, Professor Tehranian began his legal career at O’Melveny & Myers LLP. He is the author of dozens of articles and two books: Whitewashed: America’s Invisible Middle-Eastern Minority and Whitewashed: America’s Invisible Middle-Eastern Minority Minority and Infringement Nation: Copyright 2.0 and You. His work has also appeared in numerous esteemed law reviews and journals and is widely cited in a variety of legal spheres.

Lucy Varpetian, ‘96

Principal Assistant City Attorney, Glendale City Attorney’s Office lvarpetian@glendaleca.gov | (818) 548-2080

Lucy Varpetian is a Principal Assistant City Attorney in the Glendale City Attorney’s Office – Transactional Section, primarily advising the Fire Department, the Department of Information Services, the Office of the City Clerk, Human Resources and the Finance Department. She has extensive experience in all aspects of city government including advising the Civil Service Commission, the Commission on the Status of Women, and the Interagency Communications Interoperability Systems Joint Powers Authority. She also oversees the City’s legal externship program. Prior to joining the City of Glendale, Ms. Varpetian was an associate at Meserve, Mumper and Hughes, LLP.

Ms. Varpetian is the Chairperson of the Armenian Bar Association, where she has been a member since she was a law student. She also serves on the Boards of the Glendale YMCA and the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Judicial Election Evaluation Committee. She is a graduate of Southwestern Law School and USC.

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