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Robyn Polashuk ’94 has joined Covington & Burling as a partner in the firm’s communications and media practice. Polashuk’s practice focuses on the licensing and distribution of video content across a variety of platforms and business models— from cable, satellite and IPTV to broadband and mobile applications, video-on-demand and electronic sell-through. She also negotiates retransmission consent agreements on behalf of broadcast stations.
The Honorable Paul J. Watford ’94 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit was a keynote speaker at the Los Angeles Federal Bar Association’s annual State of the Circuit/District luncheon in March.
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Sachin D. Adarkar ’95 has joined Prosper Marketplace, Inc., as general counsel, secretary and chief compliance officer and secretary of Prosper Funding LLC. He previously served as vice president and deputy general counsel of GreenPoint Mortgage Funding, which was then the mortgage lending arm of Capital One Financial Corporation.
David Cox ’95, of counsel in the Litigation Practice of Morgan Lewis, is one of 19 attorneys who spent 15 months negotiating a settlement on behalf of poor local communities with Los Angeles County over the general relief program. The group announced a $7.9 million settlement in April that will institute structural reform and pay back aid that was prematurely terminated for tens of thousands of people, many of whom are homeless and live on Skid Row.
Jonathan Reich ’84 Todd R. Reinstein ’62 Bernard M. Resser ’79 Kent L. Richland ’71 Arthur M. Rieman ’88 Kneave Riggall ’78 Todd Ringstad ’80 Lynette Berg Robe ’85 Antonio H. Rodriguez ’71 Daniel Rodriguez ’80 John T. Rogers, Jr. ’81 Lynda Romero ’79 James C. Romo ’76 Robert D. Rose ’74 Gary B. Rosenbaum ’87 Michael D. Roth ’01 Glenn Rothner ’75 Glen A. Rothstein ’95 Robert H. Rotstein ’76 Terry A. Rowland ’76 Sharon F. Rubalcava ’75 Richard S. Ruben ’75 John K. Rubiner ’90 Christopher S. Ruhland ’94 Christopher P. Ruiz ’82 Don G. Rushing ’78 Melvyn Douglas Sacks ’64 Robert N. Sacks ’86 Eric E. Sagerman ’91 Adam R. Salis ’89 Mark A. Samuels ’82 Carl R. Sanchez ’93 Howard Sanger ’67 Robert M. Sanger ’73 Craig P. Sapin ’81 Deborah C. Saxe ’78 David P. Schack ’82 Benjamin D. Scheibe ’81 Dana I. Schiffman ’82 John R. Schilling ’67 David J. Schindler ’87 Sylvia Scott ’85 Jonathan Sears ’89 Brad W. Seiling ’89 Marc M. Seltzer ’72 Peter S. Selvin ’80 Michael D. Seplow ’90 Michael T. Shannon ’69 Leslie Ellen Shear ’76 Jonathan S. Shenson ’96 Carl M. Shusterman ’73 Edward I. Silverman ’77 Ronald I. Silverman ’66 David Simantob ’91 Roland G. Simpson ’75 Terry Singleton ’73 Keith A. Sipprelle ’89 Calvin A. Slater ’81 Ronald Slates ’68 Steven E. Sletten ’82 Joel M. Smith ’71 Wayne W. Smith ’72 Jonathan Solish ’75 Gail D. Solo ’75 Stephen Warren Solomon ’64 Arthur O. Spaulding, Jr. ’73
Scott J. Spolin ’70 Gail J. Standish ’93 Harold J. Stanton ’65 Martin Stein ’65 Jonathan H. Steinberg ’80 Jonathan B. Steiner ’70 Jonathan Steinsapir ’02 Gary S. Stiffelman ’79 Thomas Stindt ’70 Kenneth J. Stipanov ’81 Steven B. Stokdyk ’91 Thomas G. Stolpman ’75 Robert E. Strauss ’90 Steven M. Strauss ’81 Julia B. Strickland ’78 M. Kenneth Suddleson ’68 David Sudeck ’96 William F. Sullivan ’77 Mary-Christine "M.C." Sungaila ’91 Alan J. Talbott ’83 David M. Taub ’95 Joseph R. Taylor ’87 Marshall Mason Taylor ’74 Lawrence Teplin ’64 Lauren Teukolsky ’00 Vivian Lee Thoreen ’02 Marcy Tiffany ’77 Stacy E. Tolchin ’01 Ilene E. Trabolsi ’82 Paul D. Tripodi II ’92 William B. Tully ’82 Randolph C. Visser ’74 Reginald Vitek ’67 Bert Voorhees ’88 Bonnie Y. Wai ’87 Carl R. Waldman ’83 H. Thomas Watson ’92 Eric Weissmann ’54 Barry M. Weisz ’78 Amy H. Wells ’88 Leslie M. Werlin ’75 Gary A. Wexler ’73 William V. Whelan ’84 Laurence S. Wiener ’87 Daniel H. Willick ’73 William L. Winslow ’74 Eric D. Winston ’98 Marc J. Winthrop ’74 Richard B. Wolf ’69 Edward A. Woods ’72 Roland Wrinkle ’76 Geraldine A. Wyle ’79 John C. Wynne ’78 Navid Yadegar ’99 Ryan K. Yagura ’98 Mia Frances Yamamoto ’71 Thomas J. Yoo ’94 Kenneth M. Young ’64 Edward W. Zaelke ’83 Robert Zeller ’75 Kenneth Ziffren ’65 Stuart D. Zimring ’71 Daniel Y. Zohar ’93 Alan J. Zuckerman ’84
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Yar R. Chaikovsky ’94, an intellectual property litigator and partner at McDermott Will & Emery, was selected for inclusion on the Los Angeles Daily Journal’s annual ranking of the Top 75 IP Litigators/Top 25 Portfolio Managers for 2014. This is the fifth time he has been named to the publication’s list.