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ruling in Dukes v. Wal-Mart; both cases culminated in favorable settlements in 2014. Stephen Slick ’83 has joined the board of directors of Diomics, which is focused on life sciences, specifically diagnostic, forensics, integrated DNA analysis and genetic solutions. Slick was a former CIA clandestine service senior official and is currently director of the Intelligence Studies Project and clinical professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. The Honorable Dolly Gee ’84, U.S. District Judge for the Central District of California, has ruled that hundreds of immigrant women and children held in U.S. detention facilities should be released because their detention violates conditions of a 1997 court settlement that put restrictions on how migrant children are held. This significant ruling was featured in a front-page Los Angeles Times article, as well as in the New York Times. David Gindler ’84 of Irell & Manella LLP has been named a Leading Intellectual Property Attorney for 2015 by the Los Angeles Daily Journal. Ken Hertz ’84 was named as one of Hollywood’s top music attorneys by The Hollywood Reporter. Betsy Rosenthal ’84 has published her fifth children’s book, An Ambush of Tigers: A Wild Gathering of Collective Nouns (Millbrook Press, April 2015), which has garnered starred reviews in School Library Journal, Publisher’s Weekly and
UCLA Law Super Lawyers
Congratulations to the UCLA School of Law alumni named California Super Lawyers in 2015. Northern California Richard W. Abbey ’72 Sally M. Abel ’84 Susan K. Alexander ’86 Anthony J. Barron ’90 Katherine Basile ’87 James R. Batchelder ’88 Daniel L. Baxter ’99 Stephen I. Berkman ’92 Stuart I. Block ’92 Cecily Bond ’65 Julia Bond ’93 Gary L. Bradus ’87 Peter C. Bronson ’74 Stephen E. Carroll ’84 Yar R. Chaikovsky ’94 Oswald Cousins ’94 John W. Crittenden ’81 Dennis R. DeBroeck ’76 Thomas J. Donnelly ’75 Andrew B. Downs ’83 David W. Evans ’77 David F. Faustman ’78 Daniel L. Feder ’87 John C. Fish ’92 Paul D. Fogel ’76 Robert M. Galvin ’93 Ronald F. Garrity ’83 Charles O. Geerhart ’88 Patrick Gibbs ’94 Wayne H. Gilbert ’78 Myron S. Greenberg ’70 Kenneth L. Guernsey ’78 Jennifer M. Hartman King ’00 Charles F. Hawkins ’68 Laurie J. Hepler ’92 Clarke B. Holland ’77 Eric C. Jensen ’88 Jennifer C. Johnson ’01 Mark T. Johnson ’77 Morgan T. Jones ’81 Jordan T. Jones ’93 Gary M. Kaplan ’91 Jane B. Kroesche ’84 David L. Krotine ’87 Andrew Lah ’04
Jeffrey S. Lawson ’81 Lisa G. Lawson ’93 Jeffrey H. Lerman ’80 Michael B. Levin ’94 Marc R. Lewis ’04 Velma K. Lim ’81 Wesley M. Lowe ’83 Enrique Martinez ’99 Mark E. McKeen ’87 Joseph J. Minioza ’97 Steven C. Mitchell ’86 Ann M. Mooney ’90 Brian J. Mooney ’89 Mike Moye ’84 Dennis R. Murphy ’71 Duane C. Musfelt ’76 Rhonda L. Nelson ’84 James P. Nevin ’02 Judith M. O’Brien ’74 Gene L. Osofsky ’69 Gordon M. Park ’76 William J. Peters ’82 Florence S. Phillips ’74 Russell G. Porter ’67 Scott D. Rogers ’82 Geniveve J. Ruskus ’96 Jack Russo ’80 C. Jean Ryan ’75 Glen Y. Sato ’87 Gary W. Sawyers ’80 Joseph A. Scherer ’82 Michael W. Schoenleber ’79 Kim T. Schoknecht ’77 Christian Schreiber ’06 Andrew W. Schwartz ’79 Tessa J. Schwartz ’96 Gregory B. Shean ’95 Aaron P. Silberman ’92 Arthur O. Spaulding ’73 George B. Speir ’77 Robert J. Sullivan ’66 Gene Takagi ’01 Timothy M. Taylor ’86 Quynh T. Tran ’97 Robert F. Tyler ’74 Susan G. van Keulen ’88 W. Barton Weitzenberg ’71
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