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UCLA Law Celebrates 2013 Alumni of the Year ucla School of laW celebRated the achievements of Stephen D. Greenberg ’77 and Alicia Miñana de Lovelace ’87, the 2013 Alumni of the Year, at a luncheon in May held at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Greenberg, a managing director at Allen & Company, received the Professional Achievement award. Miñana de Lovelace, a member of the UCLA Board of Governors and the advisory board of the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies and UCLA School of Law, was honored with the award for Public and Community Service. “The achievements of our alumni bring immeasurable honor to the school and give our students benchmarks for their own careers,” Dean Rachel F. Moran said. “It is a privilege to pay tribute to Steve and Alicia, two of our most accomplished alumni, who have used their law degrees to benefit our profession and our community.” Greenberg has focused on the sports and media industries, representing numerous owners in the purchase and sale of major league sports teams, including the Milwaukee Brewers, Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros, San Diego Padres, New York Mets, Cleveland Cavaliers and Washington Wizards. Prior to joining Allen & Company, he was Alicia Miñana de Lovelace with Dean Moran and Stephen D. Greenberg the co-founder and chairman of Fusient Media Ventures, co-founder of Classic Sports Network and CSTV, and deputy commissioner and chief operating officer of Major League Baseball. Miñana de Lovelace, who has spent 25 years as a practicing attorney, is president of the UCLA La Raza Law Alumni Association. She was recently appointed to the Capital Leadership Committee for Princeton University, and she is a member of Pacific Council on International Policy and a global partner of the Institute of New Economic Thinking. She is the founding chair of the board of directors for the Learning Rights Law Center, a nonprofit founded entirely by UCLA Law graduates.
UCLA Law Receives Gifts to Fund New Student Scholarships ucla School of laW haS Received giftS fRoM aluMni
ity of scholarships directly impacts their decisions on which law
and fRiendS of the laW School to fund new student
schools to apply to and ultimately helps them determine where
scholarships. Ralph ’58 and Shirley Shapiro have endowed two
to attend,” said Rob Schwartz, dean of admissions and financial
new scholarships: the Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Scholarship in
aid. “Scholarships are critical not only to helping make law school
Environmental Law, which will be awarded to students interested
more affordable, but also to ensuring that we maintain a talented
in focusing on environmental law; and the Ralph and Shirley
and diverse student body by attracting the best and brightest
Shapiro Scholarship in Public Interest Law, for students who are
students.”
committed to pursuing public interest work. Stephen ’77 and
In addition, UCLA School of Law alumni have been active in
Myrna Greenberg have made a gift to fund the Steve and Myrna
supporting the law school’s work to raise funds for student schol-
Greenberg Scholarship Fund, which will be awarded to students
arships. The UCLA Law Alumni Association Board of Directors
with stellar academic credentials and a demonstrated financial
created a scholarship fund to award scholarships to students with
need. Both Latham & Watkins LLP and O’Melveny & Myers LLP
leadership experience, demonstrated financial need, a non-tradi-
have funded scholarships—the Latham & Watkins Scholarship
tional background and a commitment to being active with the law
Fund and the O’Melveny & Myers Scholarship Fund, respectively.
school as an alumnus/a. During the 2012-13 academic year, the
The O'Melveny & Myers Scholarship is a need-based award.
first six recipients of the annual scholarship—a mix of first-year
“I hear firsthand from prospective students that the availabil-
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and upper-class students—were selected.
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