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Judy Iriye ’00, a shareholder at Littler Mendelson, has been selected by the firm for the 2014 Fellows Program of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD), a national organization comprising the legal profession’s top general counsel and managing partners. The program is a year-long, professional development leadership training course designed to increase diversity at the leadership levels of the nation’s law firms.
Jennifer Hartman King ’00 has launched King Williams & Gleason LLP, a boutique law firm specializing in environmental, real estate and business law.
Sandra M. Forman ’01 has joined Proskauer as senior counsel in the firm’s New York office. Forman is part of the Business Development Companies (BDCs) team, advising BDCs on transactional, financing and regulatory matters across the Capital Markets Private Equity, Multi-Tranche Finance and Private Investment Funds practices. Forman joined Proskauer after a decade at Harris & Harris Group, a BDC specializing in transformative life science companies, where she was general counsel and chief compliance officer.
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Adriana Vesci ’02 and William Raine are pleased to announce the birth of Desmond James Raine. Des, who was born on September 9, 2013, and joined big brother Luca, weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces, and measured 21.5 inches. His hobbies include sitting up, crawling, trying to stand on his own, babbling and putting everything possible in his mouth! His future plans include attending UCLA Law (class of 2038).
Nisha Vyas ’03 has joined Public Counsel’s Community Development Project. Vyas was previously the pro bono director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice–Los Angeles.
Andrew Bell ’04 has joined Marten Law PLLC as a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office. Bell joins the firm from Downey Brand LLP, where he focused on complex energy and land use matters.
Andrea Ohta ’01, a partner in the Commercial Litigation Practice Group in the Philadelphia office of Pepper Hamilton LLP, has been selected for the 2014 Fellows Program of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD), a national organization comprising the legal profession’s top general counsel and managing partners. ANDREW BELL
Shiloh Coleman ’02 has launched Enduranote, a website that allows users to schedule messages to loved ones that will be delivered after they pass away. His son Joseph came up with the idea on Father’s Day in 2011 at the age of 7, and Coleman’s family has been working on developing the idea ever since.
Krishna K. Juvvadi ’02 of Sher Leff was named one of this year’s California Lawyer of the Year Award (“CLAY Award”) recipients in the environmental law category for his work with lawyers from Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass that resulted in an $816 million jury verdict for the state of New Hampshire in a groundwater contamination case against ExxonMobil.
Kamran Mirrafati ’04 is now a partner in the San Francisco office of Foley & Lardner LLP. He was previously with Seyfarth Shaw LLP in Los Angeles.
Kymberleigh Damron-Hsiao ’05 has been promoted to partner at Kading Briggs LLP, a new employment defense firm. DamronHsiao began her legal career at O’Melveny & Myers LLP.
Julie D. Goldstein ’05 has been elevated to partner at Fox Rothschild LLP. Goldstein’s practice includes a broad range of complex commercial and business-related litigation matters.
Rebecca Petereit ’05 was chosen for the 2014 Texas Rising Stars list by Super Lawyers Magazine. Becky is an attorney with
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