CLASS NOTES tiffany hedgpeth ’94, whose practice focuses on environmental litigation, is a new partner at Edgcomb Law Group, LLP. formerly a partner at Bingham McCutchen in Los Angeles, she will spearhead the opening of Edgcomb Law Group’s new office in Burbank, California.
Adam miller ’94, founder and CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand, was the keynote speaker at this year’s Entrepreneur Association Conference, which is the flagship student-organized event at UCLA Anderson and attracts approximately 500 attendees.
Dr. vicki g. norton ’94 was named to the Daily Journal’s list of 100 Top Intellectual Property Lawyers for her work in patent law with Duane Morris LLP, where she is a biotechnology and chemical patent specialist.
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michael Chang ’95 was appointed vice president, business and legal affairs, of Warner Bros. Consumer Products. His primary responsibility is Warner Bros.’s Asia Pacific Region. Chang, who is vice president of the UCLA School of Law Alumni Association, also recently accepted an appointment to chair the Pro Bono Service Committee at the Southern California Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel.
thomas kaufman ’95, of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP in Los Angeles, was selected to the Daily Journal’s list of “Top Labor & Employment Lawyers.” He specializes in class action litigation.
douglas mcCormick ’95 was recently sworn in as a magistrate judge on the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Judge McCormick, who was sworn in on August 23, will sit in Santa Ana in the court’s Southern Division. Prior to his selection as a magistrate judge, Judge McCormick served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the United States Attorney's Office in Santa Ana since 2001, and as a deputy chief of that office since 2007. glen rothstein ’95 has joined the Los Angeles office of Greenberg Glusker. Rothstein, a founding partner of the Los Angeles office of Blank Rome LLP, has a long list of clients in the entertainment and interactive software industries.
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jack schaedel ’95 has formed the law firm Hernandez Schaedel & Associates. The firm is focused on business litigation, employment law, intellectual property and health care. Schaedel is the chairman of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the Pasadena Bar Association and is active in the Labor and Employment Law and Small Firms sections of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.
mollie benedict ’96, of Tucker Ellis LLP, has been appointed chair of the firm’s Medical and Pharmaceutical Practice Group. Benedict has extensive experience handling pharmaceutical and medical device matters and coordinating strategy for nationwide litigation. MOlliE BENEDiCT
rupa goswami ’98 was appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Governor Jerry Brown in July. She is the first South Asian female judge in the State of California. Goswami has served as a federal prosecutor for the past twelve years at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. Prior to becoming a prosecutor, she clerked for the Honorable Nora Manella, then-U.S. District Judge, and for the late Honorable Terence T. Evans of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, and she practiced civil litigation at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Los Angeles. She currently serves as co-president of the South Asian Bar Association of Southern California.
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