Class Notes Category: Career
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Perrie Weiner ’82
Perrie Weiner ’82, partner in charge of global law firm Baker McKenzie’s L.A. office, chairs the North America Securities Litigation Group for Baker McKenzie. Weiner was ranked in the 2021 Chambers USA edition for Litigation: Securities – California. Additionally, the practice was newly ranked in the 2021 Legal 500 U.S. Under Weiner’s leadership the practice…
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Jeremy Evans ’05
Jeremy Evans ’05 has been elected president of the California Lawyers Association, the largest statewide voluntary bar association in the country. In September he will be sworn in to a two-year term. The California Lawyers Association is the statewide, voluntary bar association for all California lawyers. Created by the legislature in S.B. 36, the California…
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Sandra Cano ’99, Ed.D. ’18
Sandra Cano ’99, Ed.D. ’18, has been selected as the new executive director of City Year Los Angeles. City Year is an AmeriCorps program which places young adults alongside teachers in systemically under-resourced schools to improve academic outcomes and provide social emotional support for students. Cano is a lifelong educator, former teacher, and principal. Before…
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Alissa Hecht Gardenswartz ’92
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck announced that Alissa Gardenswartz ’92 was one of two shareholders named co-chairs of the firm’s State Attorneys General practice group. An accomplished litigator and respected former regulator, Gardenswartz helps clients navigate inquiries from state attorneys general and federal authorities through her extensive legal knowledge and relationships with government officials across the…
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Dr. Adrienne Youdim ’98
Adrienne Youdim ’98, M.D., FACP, is celebrating the release of her book, “Hungry for More: Stories and Science to Inspire Weight Loss From the Inside Out.” From the book’s publicity materials: About the Book Our hunger for perfection, for belonging, for presence, for meaning all contribute to our desire for food. For over fifteen years,…
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Rene Almeling, M.A. ’03, Ph.D. ’08
The latest book by Rene Almeling, M.A. ’03, Ph.D. ’08, “GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health,” is now out from University of California Press. From the book’s website: For more than a century, the medical profession has made enormous efforts to understand and treat women’s reproductive bodies. But only recently have researchers begun…
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Jonathan Golub, J.D. ’00
Jonathan A. Golub, J.D. ’00 has joined Wiggin and Dana in New York as Chair of the Fund Formation and Investment Management Practice Group and a partner in the firm’s Corporate Department. “Wiggin and Dana continues to expand its suite of service offerings for the private equity, emerging companies, venture capital, family office and financial…
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Sean McKissick, J.D. ’08
Sean McKissick, J.D. ’08, has joined the litigation practice in the Sacramento office of Downey Brand, a prominent law firm that also has offices in San Francisco and Stockton, Calif., as well as Reno, Nev. McKissick brings with him more than ten years of legal experience from his time spent working in Los Angeles, where…
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Timothy Hsieh, M.S. ’11
Timothy Hsieh, M.S. ’11, will be joining the faculty of the Oklahoma City University School of Law this fall as a full-time, entry-level, tenure-track assistant professor of law, and will most likely be teaching patent law, IP law and antitrust law during the fall and spring. Since January 2019, he has been a patent examiner…
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John Ambrecht ’66, MBA ’68
John Ambrecht ’66, MBA ’68, one of the region’s leading estate planning attorneys, and his accomplished associate attorney, Elizabeth Mackey-Sall, will join the Santa Barbara law firm DT Law Partners. Ambrecht, who joins the downtown law firm as a partner, has more than 30 years of experience in estate planning and estate tax law and…