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Class Action Alumni
| 72 | Rick Watters of Fresno was honored as one of two Trial Lawyers of the Year by the California chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. | | 75 | Gene Martinez is one of two assistant district attorneys for Santa Barbara County, and is in charge of the North County criminal and civil operations. He supervises two offices with a staff of 22 attorneys, 32 inves tigators and advocates, and 17 secre taries. Martinez began his career in San Mateo County, where he won his first 17 jury trials. In Santa Barbara County, he has not lost a case since the late 1980s. He is also an instruc tor in the administration of justice program at Allan Hancock College, a local community college. | | 76 | Thomas R. Lavelle is senior vice president and general counsel at Rambus, a Los Altos company specializing in high-speed chip inter faces. Previously, he was vice presi dent and general counsel at Xilinx for seven years, and also spent 15 years at Intel in its legal department. | | 77 | Carlos A. Cabrera is a superior court judge in Fresno County. He has been on the bench since 1990. He and his wife, Lupe, have two chil dren and six grandchildren. | | 80 | David King is special coun sel at Carr, McClellan, Ingersoll, Thompson & Horn in Burlingame. Previously, he was with Coddington, Hicks & Danforth in Redwood City. James Leet of Sacramento was recently named to the 2006 list of "The Best Lawyers in America" for tax law. The ranking, sponsored by BestLawyers.com, is based on peer reviews. G. Dana Scruggs received the Roland K. Hall Outstanding Public Service Award from the Santa Cruz County Bar Association. He practices personal injury law in Santa Cruz with the firm of Cartwright, Scruggs, Fulton & Walther. | | 81 | Dennis Beougher is an attorney for Lombardo & Gilles in Salinas. He was previously city attorney for the city of Brentwood. He focuses on land use, municipal law, and related litigation. Charlotte C. Cloud is director of the Northern Region for Legal Services Alabama. She is involved in post-Hurricane Katrina legal issues and providing access to justice for poor Alabamians. J. Kenneth Gorman is director of litigation at Lombardo & Gilles in Salinas. He handles complex cases involving real estate, construc tion defects and business litigation. Kenneth A. Wong is a senior associ ate specializing in workers’ compen sation defense at the law offices of Robert Wheatley in Santa Ana. | | 81 | Harold Jewett is a prosecutor for the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office. In the summer of 2006, he was the prosecutor in the murder trial of teenager Scott Dyleski who was convicted in the death of Pamela Vitale, wife of defense attorney and television analyst Daniel Horowitz. Jesus Valencia is a court commissioner for the Santa Clara County Superior Court. Previously, he had his own practice, specializ ing in personal injury and criminal defense law. | | 83 | Cara Beatty was elected a supe rior court judge in Shasta County in June 2006. She was previously a court commissioner and prosecutor in Orange, Humboldt, and Shasta Counties. She is married to Michael Pohlmeyer, a member of the Redding City Council. Roger Efremsky began a 14-year term as a bankruptcy judge in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California in August 2006. He previously practiced bankruptcy law for over 20 years, and was a partner in the Pleasanton law firm of Efremsky and Nagel, which he started in 1990. He has served on many local rules commit tees for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, and was a member of the Attorney Advisory Committee for the Clerk’s Office of the Court’s Eastern District of California. | | 85 | Mark Ghan is vice president for human resources and general coun sel at Western Nevada Community College. He leads the human resources department’s compliance and employee relations functions, provides labor content expertise, and serves as the key point of contact for college legal advice and counsel. | | 87 | Holly Harris is an assistant attorney general in the Environmental Protection Division of the Vermont Attorney General’s Office, where she focuses on environmental enforce ment and cost recovery claims. She lives in Shelburne, Vt., with her husband, Philip Boyle ’86, and their children, Patrick, 9, and Maria, 6. | | 88 | Mark Cochran MBA is vice president, general counsel, and corpo rate secretary for Hyperion, a leader in business performance management software. He was previously vice pres ident, general counsel, and corporate secretary at Brocade Communications Systems, and also worked for sev eral other high tech firms, including Advanced Micro Devices, where he was senior corporate counsel. Stephan Passalacqua was re-elected District Attorney of Sonoma County in June 2006, a job he has held since 2003. | | 90 | Ellen Arabian-Lee is an attorney at Gurnee & Daniels in Roseville. She focuses on civil litigation and employment law. Previously, she was a part ner at Lanahan & Reilley. Robert S. Shepard is associate managing attor ney for Nationwide Insurance, now known as James & Shepard. | | 92 | Sandra Bean was elected a supe rior court judge for Alameda County in November 2006. Wendy (Gomez) Getty was appointed a judge on the Superior Court of Solano County in July 2006. Previously, she had been assistant county counsel. Genie Harrison is a partner in the down town Los Angeles law firm of Litt, Estuar, Harrison, Miller & Kitson, where she practices labor and employ ment law. In a high-profile case, she represented firefighter Tennie Pierce, who sued the city of Los Angeles after dog food was slipped into his firehouse meal. John Larsen is a deputy commissioner for the state board of parole hearings. He is one of 10 commissioners in the Bay Area ruling on parole revocation hearings and life sentence parole consideration hearings. Curtis Leavitt is an attor ney with Lord, Bissell & Brook in Sacramento, where he practices health care law. He works with health care plans, health care providers, and other business entities in litigation and regulatory matters involving managed care liability, commercial litigation, professional license revocation, and employment law. | | 93 | Laura M. Guzman Magill practices criminal defense law in the Fresno area with her husband, Charles. They have five children, ages 5 to 19. She is also president of the PTA at her daughter’s school. | | 94 | Lucas Chang is a partner in Morgan, Lewis & Bockius’ Beijing office. John Eyrick recently celebrat ed the birth of his third son, Nash, who joins his two older brothers, Max and Jack, at home in Bainbridge Island, Wash. Paula Holm Jensen co-chairs the intellectual property practice group at Tonkon Thorp in Portland, Ore. Her practice emphasizes license agreements, copyright and trademark activities, and all types of technology transactions. She previ ously was principal of Holm Jensen Law, which she founded in 2003. Jeff Niebling was appointed by Chief Justice Ronald Moon to the Hawaii Judiciary Committee on Uniform Probate Code and Probate Court Practices, a select group of judges, attorneys, and court officials who make recommendations to Hawaii’s legislature and judiciary on changes to the state’s Probate Code and Probate Rules. | | 95 | Michael Edelman is of coun sel at the Palo Alto office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. He focuses on intellectual property liti gation, with an emphasis on patent infringement and trade secrets cases. He previously worked at the Dechert law firm. He is the author of "Traffic Devices v. Marketing Displays: The Supreme Court’s Failure to Resolve the Conflict Between Patent Law and Trade Dress Law" in the ABA’s Intellectual Property Journal. | | 96 | Douglas Lumish is a partner at Weil Gotschal Manges’ patent litigation group in Redwood Shores. He successfully resolved both Cisco Systems and Oracle Corp’s first pat ent litigations and has represented many of the top companies in Silicon Valley. He was named one of "40 People Under 40 to Watch" by the San Jose Business Journal in 2006. Melissa (Bartholow) Mulkey is a member of McGlinchey Stafford’s Baton Rouge, La. office representing employers. She has a master’s degree in labor and employment law from Georgetown University, and worked for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Office of Compliance and Guidance in Washington, D.C. | | 97 | Grace Hum and her husband, Jason E. Lee ’96, are the parents of two sons, Dylan, 3, and Griffin, 1. Grace is a legal research and writing lecturer at Stanford Law School, and Jason is an in-house employment lawyer for Federated Department Stores. They live in San Francisco. Steve Lee Rodriguez was selected Outstanding Volunteer in Public Service by the San Francisco Bar Association’s Volunteer Legal Services Program, based on his work in 2005 for the Association’s Landlord-Tenant Courthouse Project. He successfully negotiated several settlements on behalf of tenants on the eve of trial. He is a member of the San Francisco law firm Cozen O’Connor, where he practices with the international insur ance group. Jeff True is general counsel at 2Wire, a San Jose-based pro vider of broadband services platforms. Jeff and his wife, Carol, welcomed their second son, Carson Henry, on Father’s Day 2006. | | 98 | Kyle Lewis B.A. ’94 married Cheryl Lea Connolly at St. Helena Catholic Church in St. Helena. Cheryl is a senior account advertis ing manager at Wine Spectator and Cigar Aficionado magazines. Kyle was a captain in the Marines, serv ing as a judge advocate in the Third Battalion, Seventh Marine Regiment in Iraq. Mark Malin is a partner at Dewey Ballantine in East Palo Alto. Eric Norris, Jennifer Wagster, and Daniel Weinblatt recently partici pated in Lawyers in the Library, a program that offers free, short con sultations with an attorney at the San Jose Public Library, and is sponsored by the Pro Bono Project of Silicon Valley. | | 01 | Reed Minkin moved to Michigan from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. He is a com mercial litigation associate at May, Simpson & Strote in Bloomfield Hills. He and his wife, Shelly, have two children, daughter Olivia, and a new baby, Gabriel. Julia Wei and Ken Leung B.S. ’89, M.S. ’93, are the parents of Caleb, born Nov. 12, 2005. Jennifer Wintrode is practicing law in Panama City Beach, Fla. She focuses on real property and business litigation, corporate transactions, and municipal representation. She is also licensed to practice in Michigan. | | 02 | Adrienne Cohn is an associate with Weinberg, Ziff & Miller in Palo Alto, in the firm’s personal injury and criminal defense practice. She previously worked for Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel. | | 03 | Ashley Ann Dorris is an associ ate at Snyder Law in Santa Barbara, where she focuses on product liability and commercial litigation. | | 04 | Lisa (Gilmore) and George Dowell announce the birth of a son, Trooper, on June 22, 2006. Lisa is working as a research and writing attorney, and George is doing Proposition 65 enforcement/litigation with Hirst and Chanler in Berkeley. Ricky Lee is the executive direc tor of the California Democratic Congressional Delegation. He previously served as a congressional assis tant in the San Jose district office of Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren ’75. He also served as press secretary for the Vietnamese American National Gala, as a field coordinator for MoveOn.org’s political action com mittee, and as a youth and family specialist for Catholic Charities in San Jose. | | 05 | Kindon Olsen and his wife, Megan, announce the birth of a son, Kaden Kindon, on Dec. 1, 2006. The family lives in San Jose. Helena Rho is a community prosecutor for the city of Bakersfield. | |
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