Class Notes Category: Accolades
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Angela Agrusa ’84
Angela Agrusa ’84, managing partner of DLA Piper’s Los Angeles offices, was named to the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2021 LA500 list honoring the most influential leaders and impactful executives in Los Angeles. Agrusa was highlighted as one of the country’s top litigation attorneys, who have demonstrated innovation and agility in the face of unprecedented…
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Dan Arriola ’11
Dan Arriola ’11 was named one of the “40 Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40” by the National LGBT Bar Association. Arriola is recognized along with eight other recipients from California, and is the only 2021 award recipient from the California Central Valley. Arriola grew up in the City of Tracy, earned his B.A. in political…
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Mary Bomba ’72
Mary Bomba ’72 will be honored on June 3 by OPICA (Optimistic People In a Caring Atmosphere) Adult Day Program and Counseling Center, which supports adults with dementia and provides counseling and respite to their families. The luncheon program will be recorded and available on OPICA’s website. It will include a speech introducing Bomba by…
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Angela Agrusa ’84
Angela Agrusa ’84, managing partner of DLA Piper’s Los Angeles offices, was named to the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2021 Women of Influence: Attorneys list, honoring Los Angeles’s most influential women attorneys. The list recognizes lawyers for their “exceptional legal skill and achievement across the full spectrum of responsibility, exemplary leadership as evidenced by the…
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Arvan Chan ’05
Arvan Chan ’05 was honored as Young Global Leader in 2021 by the World Economic Forum. The Forum goes through a rigorous selection process to identify, select and commemorate remarkable leaders under 40 who come from different communities and industries worldwide. These young leaders exemplify what we need most today: hope, empathy, authenticity and the…
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Craig Simon ’74
Berger Kahn Managing Partner Craig Simon ’74 is the 2021 recipient of the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year award from the Los Angeles Daily Journal for his work as co-lead counsel for the subrogation plaintiffs in the Woolsey $2.2 billion settlement. The California Lawyer Attorney of the Year award recognizes recipients for their significant…
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Sophia Castillo ’02
Sophia Castillo ’02 has been recognized as a Top Author in the JD Supra 2021 Readers’ Choice Awards for her thought leadership and writing on key topics in Food & Beverage. Castillo is a partner in Downey Brand’s environmental practice in San Francisco, where she specializes in complex issues relating to California’s Proposition 65 and…
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Warren Bicknell Mori, M.S. ’84, Ph.D. ’87
Warren Bicknell Mori ’84, Ph.D. ’87, distinguished professor in the departments of physics & astronomy and of electrical and computer engineering, has been honored as the 2020 recipient of the James Clerk Maxwell Prize from the American Physical Society in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of plasma physics. Mori, who earned his…
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Laurie Woolery ’85
Laurie Woolery ’85, a director and playwright now based in New York, has been awarded the 2021 Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities, which comes with a $20,000 award to continue her work. Woolery, who earned her bachelor’s degree in English, is Director of Public Works at The Public Theater, a program that seeks to…
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Ulysis Baal ’19
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and Ulysis Baal ’19 started grocery shopping for seniors in his Bakersfield, Calif., neighborhood, his only goal was to help those in need. He could not have known how his effort would galvanize those around him and how his generosity of spirit would come full circle. “Towards the end of…