Class Notes Category: Career
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Troy Foster ’94
Perkins Coie law is pleased to announce that Troy Foster ‘94 has joined the firm’s Palo Alto office as a partner in the Emerging Companies & Venture Capital practice. Foster’s practice assists a wide range of corporate and entrepreneurial clients including emerging growth companies, venture capital firms, public companies and investment banks. He counsels clients…
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Lucas Richman ’84
Grammy Award-winning composer and conductor Lucas Richman ’84 and Albany Records are celebrating the release of a new CD, “IN TRUTH Lucas Richman,” featuring three of Richman’s compositions performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, pianist Jeffrey Biegel, oboist Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida and cellist Inbal Segev. Richman was on the podium for the recording of his…
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Chantal Rodriguez, Ph.D. ’09
Bruin Chantal Rodriguez, Ph.D. ‘09 accepted the position as assistant dean of the Yale School of Drama. She previously worked as the programming director and literary manager of the Latino Theater Company, operators of the Los Angeles Theatre Center, a multi-theater complex. As a scholar in the field of Theatre and Performance studies, with a…
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Christian “Christy” Gray ’93
Jackson Lewis P.C., a law corporation, is pleased to announce Christian “Christy” Gray ’93 has joined the firm’s Honolulu office as an associate. Prior to her work in employment law, Gray was a deputy district attorney in Orange County, California, where she gained valuable trial experience prosecuting a variety of criminal offenses. Gray focuses her…
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Shu-Heng Chen, M.A. ‘91, Ph.D. ‘92
Bruin and Economist Shu-Heng Chen, M.A. ‘91, Ph.D. ‘92 was appointed Vice President of the National Chengchi University in Taipei City, Taiwan. A trained academic, Chen said he is up to the challenges of the new administrative role. His priorities as Vice President are the English Taught Program, the development of higher education and the…
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Eric Tran ’06
The law firm of Lipson, Neilson, Cole, Seltzer, Garin, P.C. announced that UCLA alumnus, attorney Eric Tran ’06, has joined the firm’s Las Vegas office. Tran’s practice includes commercial litigation, personal injury, general liability defense, insurance coverage, insurance bad faith litigation and professional liability. Prior to joining the firm, Tran served as corporate counsel for…
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Michele Haydel Gehrke ’98
Michele Haydel Gehrke ’98, a principal of the national law firm Polsinelli, has been selected for inclusion in the first ever “Under 40 Hot List” by Benchmark Litigation, considered by many to be the definitive guide to America’s leading litigation firms and attorneys. Gehrke practices in the area of labor and employment, and will be…
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Talar Tavlian ’02
Fisher Phillips, a national labor and employment law firm representing employers, announces the addition of Talar Tavlian ’02 as an associate in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Tavlian has broad experience in complex commercial litigation. She has litigated state and federal class actions and cases involving labor and employment, business, product liability and construction claims.…
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Ghazal Tajmiri ’06
Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Bruin Ghazal Tajmiri ’06 has joined the firm as an associate in the Corporate Litigation group. Tajmiri joins the firm from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. She concentrates her practice on corporate litigation matters, including copyright and trade secret disputes, consumer and employment class actions, contract disputes,…
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Jonathan Moore, M.F.A. ’03
Jonathan Moore, M.F.A. ’03, recently produced and directed the feature documentary “Coaches’ Wives,” which will be distributed by Novus Content in the fall of 2016. Currently an associate professor of Cinema Arts at Vanguard University, he is in pre-production on his next film, a documentary about African-American entertainers in segregated Las Vegas. Find the film…