CLASS NOTES Amy mcginnis gillinger ’05 has joined Winston & Strawn as an associate in the firm’s Los Angeles office. She was previously with Norton Rose Fulbright.
julie Chen ’08 has joined Winston & Strawn as an associate in the firm’s Los Angeles office. She was previously at Norton Rose Fulbright. matt tolnick ’08 has created Lawless Jerky, beginning a career that marries his hobby of making beef jerky with his entrepreneurial ambition. In the company’s first five days on Kickstarter. com, they shattered records to become one of the most popular pages on the site.
maryam judar ’05 has taken over as executive director of The Citizen Advocacy Center, a community law office based in Elmhurst, Illinois. jesse saivar ’05, an intellectual property lawyer at Greenberg Glusker, was named to The Recorder’s list of “Lawyers on the Fast Track.” neil peretz ’06 has finally convinced his wife to move back to California. After five years at the Department of Justice and two years helping to start the Office of Enforcement at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he is joining a venturebacked consumer and small business finance company called BillFloat as its first general counsel. He will be working in downtown San Francisco and expects that they will live midPeninsula.
Anita velasco ’06 and her husband Fidel Velasco welcomed son Jeremiah T.F. Velasco on January 24, 2013. Anita works at Neighborhood Legal Services and is on the board of Girls Today Women Tomorrow and Hermanas Unidas.
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rachel bloomekatz ’08 is now an associate in the Columbus, Ohio, office of Jones Day. Bloomekatz previously clerked for Supreme Court Justice Stephen H. Breyer during the 2011-2012 term.
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david j. montoya, iii ’09 recently became an in-house attorney with the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians, practicing various areas of federal Indian law. He previously worked as a contract attorney at the Legal Aid Society of Orange County. Andrew Western ’09 has joined Osborn Maledon in Phoenix as an associate. His practice focuses on business transactions and counseling clients in general, corporate and commercial matters. Most recently, he was an associate at Latham & Watkins, where he focused on advising Fortune 500 companies and private equity firms.
2010s to 2013 elisha Weiner ’10, of Hobart Linzer LLP, had her article “Price & Privilege,” regarding issues of attorney-client privilege relating to third-party financing of litigation, featured on the cover of the April 2012 issue of Los Angeles Lawyer magazine.
greg good ’07, an alumnus of the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, recently joined Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's office as director of infrastructure. He will oversee a range of city services in his new top-level staff position. Greg was formely the director of the Waste and Recycling Project at LAANE.
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