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Hon. Robert M. Falasco B.S. '48 was honored by his colleagues in Merced County when the courthouse in Los Banos was named the Merced County Robert M. Falasco Justice Center in his honor.

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Hon. Peter Breen is a senior judge for the state of Nevada, and does private mediation and arbitration. Hon. Thomas Breen retired in 2000, but works statewide in the assigned judges program and as a trustee at Gavilan Community Collge. Anthony Da Vigo is retired from the practice of public law, and is a certified instructor for caretakers and law enforcement on how to cope with persons with severe mental illness. Thomas McGlynn is retired from the practice of law, and living in Red Bluff. Leon Panetta mentions grandkids and golf as two pleasures of his life. For an update on Panetta, see story in Law Briefs. Hon. Tom Smith is enjoying riding his horse, reading and watching old movies in retirement.

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John Chessell has had a small private practice since 1999, after retiring from the Riverside County District Attorney's Office. George Pifer is fully retired at age 87 and residing in a continuing care complex. He and his wife have been married 67 years. Joel Primes is in private practice after retiring from the California Attorney General's Office in 2004. He volunteers at the Senior Legal Hotline, and does mediations there. Paul Principe is retired after a career as a deputy district attorney in the Bay Area. Ben Rishwain has a part-time law practice and does real estate development.

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Esau Herrera BSC '72 is back on the Alum Rock School District Board of Education, having been elected after a three-year break from 20 consecutive years as a member. He attended school in the district as a child. His daughter, Kiara Cristina, is a freshman at SCU.

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Hon. Virginia Marcoida was appointed to the Sonoma County Superior Court by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Previously, she served as a deputy public defender for Sonoma County since 1985. She also worked as an attorney with Porter & Dunham in Paris, France, and for the Santa Clara County Public Defender's Office.

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Valerie McInroy Arnesen is a member of the tax department at McDermott Will & Emery in Palo Alto. She writes, "Probably my most significant accomplishment has been finding a way to practice law "part-time" for the last 25 years." She was the first female attorney at Fenwick & West, and the firm's first part-time partner. Mario Cano practices criminal and immigration law in South Florida. Cathleen Curl has practiced law at the firm of Manos & Curl in Millbrae for the past 21 years. The latest children's book by Moira Rose Donohue is called Penny and the Punctuation Bee, starring Penny the Period and her grammar cohort. The book is geared toward 6- to 9-year-olds. Moira lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, Rob, and her two children, Peter and Rose. John Doyle has a law practice in Pasadena, where he handles governmental entity defense, insurance, products liability, business and trust litigation, and appeals. He has served on the boards of directors of several organizations, including Children's Hospital of Los Angeles and the Pasadena Center for Children. Vernon Granneman married Mary Nadeau on March 1, 2008. They live in San Jose. Joel Harter is the presiding judge on the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board in Sacramento and an associate chief judge for Northern California. Bob Katz spends half his time volunteering for non-profits and community groups, and the rest of his time doing law and real estate projects. His wife, Leola Lapides, is retired from practicing law. She focuses on foster youth and philanthropic services, and sits on non-profit boards. Robert Kopelson is a sole practitioner representing plaintiffs in personal injury law in downtown San Jose. Virginia (Saiu) Leeper is a senior associate attorney with the Gaitan Group in Washington State where she defends clients in employment law and asbestos litigation. Paul Malikowski practices law in Reno. Casey McGlynn chairs the life sciences group at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto. His practice focuses on forming, funding, and representing medical device, diagnostic, and biotech companies. Gary O'Neill is managing director for New York Life Investment Management. Jerry Owyang is senior pastor of Cornerstone United Methodist Church in Placentia, a multi-ethnic Asian-American congregation. Nancy Palmintere is vice president of finance and director of global tax and trade for the Intel Corporation. She manages a worldwide organization of 170. Each year she flies 250,000 miles to visit Intel's sites and to meet with government officials. Howard Peters retired after 25 years as a patent attorney and partner in private practice. He volunteers for science and legal education. Michael Spencer is a program analyst with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Barbara Spector was re-elected to the Los Gatos Town Council. Emmett Stanton is a partner at Fenwick & West in Mountain View, and co-chair of the firm's securities litigation practice. Lauren Easman Strickland is in private practice as both a divorce/family mediator and as a licensed marriage and family therapist. Patti White joined Littler Mendelson after law school and is still there as a shareholder in the San Jose office. She is now semi-retired, and working part-time.

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Stephanie West Allen was the keynote speaker at the 2008 annual conference of the Southern California Mediation Association. She writes a column on alternative dispute resolution for The Complete Lawyer and a book column for the ABA's Law Practice. Kenneth Gray is included in The Best Lawyers in America 2009, recognized for his work in environmental law at Pierce Atwood in Portland, Maine. James L. Leet has been named to the 2009 list of The Best Lawyers in America, based on peer reviews. He has been recognized in the tax law category since 2005. Leet is chairman of the board and a stakeholder in the Business Services Practice Group at McDonough Holland & Allen in Sacramento. His practice includes all aspects of corporate, partnership and personal income tax planning. Jeff Levinson is on the board of directors of Buchalter Nemer, and he practices business litigation in the firm's Scottsdale, Ariz., office.

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Karl-Otto Hartmann is a member of the board of trustees of FocusShares Trust. He has over 17 years of experience in the ETF/Fund Industry. He worked on development of the SuperTrust series of investment company derivative securities. He previously served as senior vice president, general counsel, and director at J.P. Morgan Investor Services Company.

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James Gleason works for Santa Clara County's Indigent Defense System. He began working in the county's Public Defender's Office in 1984. He and his wife have three sons and live in Santa Clara.

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Brian Cayton has worked in a private civil practice, business development for Threshold Enterprises in Scotts Valley, and at Cayton Consulting. Betsy (Howe) Faber is a principal at Mercer, a human resources consulting firm, in Los Angeles. She is leader of the firm's West Zone Defined Contribution Specialty Consulting Group. Anthony Filer is directing attorney at Community Legal Services in Norwalk. He has taught legal courses for 18 years, and teaches in the paralegal program at Cerritos Community College. He and his wife have two children. Hon. John Freeland was appointed to the Stanislaus County Superior Court in July by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Previously, he was an associate and shareholder with the Curtis & Arata Law Firm, where he focused on personal injury litigation. Deborah Freeman does contract work for a number of Bay Area law firms. Linda Groberg is a senior deputy district attorney in Ventura County, where she works in the consumer and environmental protection division. Debbie Kovac has a criminal appellate practice, after spending several years as a federal prosecutor. She is the magistrate judge for the local court, and an instructor for the Ohio Peace Officers' Training Academy. John McGowan retired in 2006 after nearly 30 years at HP and Agilent. He is now director of risk management for the Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union in Palo Alto. Alfred Paladino is married, with three children, and living in Truckee. He is a tax director with Deloitte Tax in the Washington National Tax Group, with a focus on multistate taxation. Bernard J. Vogel III is a shareholder and CFO at Silicon Valley Law Group, where he practices corporate and business law.

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Elton Au is doing collection work for public hospitals as a deputy attorney general for the state of Hawaii. Everett Billingslea is vice president and general counsel for Lynden, Inc., a transportation company. Elizabeth Buikema-Ison practices employment law for employers with the Ison Law Group in Sacramento. She also teaches employment law classes for Golden Gate University and UC Davis. Tim Casey is a partner with his wife, Jacquelyn Fuzell, in the SilverSky Group in Reno, which provides business development and intellectual property services. Evelyn Crane-Oliver is vice president and associate general counsel for Robert Half International in Menlo Park. She supervises a team of attorneys who work on corporate governance, trademark, litigation, securities, and contracts. She is married to Michael Oliver. Nancy Geneen is an IP litigation and office managing partner with Foley & Lardner. Anne Lawlor Goyette lives and works in Burlingame with her husband and three children. She has worked in mediation and arbitration as a neutral since 1998. Kimberly Hughes works as in-house counsel for Weyerhaeuser Company in the Environmental, Health and Safety, Energy, and Litigation Group. Jake Jacobsen is an assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting violent and organized crime. His wife, Judi, is a full-time mom to their four children in Roanoke, Va. J.J. Kapp is the supervising attorney at the Santa Clara County Public Defender's Office. He has been with the Public Defender since 1990. Estelle Kelley has practiced law, taught, and now is on the board of directors of Outrigger Enterprises. Charles Miller II is a regional sales manager for First American Title Company, Lenders Advantage in Contra Costa and Solano Counties. He lives in Lafayette with his wife and two children. Michael Price is presiding administrative law judge for the Fresno office of appeals for the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. Lisa Wally is an in-house attorney for AT&T, practicing labor and employment law. S. Christine Zanello-Giordano is CEO and chairwoman of the board of directors of GCC Enterprises, Inc.

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Douglas Moylan was elected to the senate in Guam. Previously, he had served as attorney general.

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Carol Koenig celebrated her 60th birthday in December 2008 by donating 60 hams and turkeys to Second Harvest Food Bank, mostly collected from fellow attorneys at the San Jose law firm of Wylie, McBride, Platten & Renner. Stephen McElfresh taught a seminar on human resources metrics in Bahrain and Dubai in October 2008.

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Ricardo Echeverria is a partner at Shernoff Bidart Darras Echeverria. Following a five-week jury trial in San Diego County, he obtained a $3.63 million verdict, $3.5 million of which was for punitive damages.

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Matt Armanino is chief operating officer for Armanino McKenna, the largest CPA firm headquartered in California. Previously, he was executive vice president of field operations for Zebra Technologies, and COO of WhereNet, a leading provider of wireless asset management solutions. He also was senior corporate counsel at PeopleSoft. Kathi Rawnsley heads up the Palo Alto office of the venture capital firm Lowenstein Sandler. She handles mergers and acquisitions, as well as venture investment deals. Previously, she served as regional counsel for Intel Capital in Santa Clara, where she brokered a $14.5 billion deal among Sprint Nextel, Clearwire, Comcast, Google, and Intel Capital for a new generation of wireless network.

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Hon. Raymonda K. Burnham has been appointed to the Kern County Superior Court by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Previously, she was a partner at Burnham & Winkler, and a deputy public defender for Kern County. Geoffrey Ezgar is a partner in the Redwood Shores office of King & Spalding. He focuses on securities class action defense and complex commercial litigation in life sciences and other areas. He also represents professional services firms in liability litigation and government investigations. He previously was a partner at Sidley Austin. Jim Filiault is corporate counsel for Vestas Americas, the U.S. subsidiary of Vestas Wind Systems A/S, the world's largest manufacturer of wind turbines. He lives in Portland, Ore., with his wife, Megan, and two children. Barbara Hehir Olsen and her husband, Scott BSC '92, welcomed a son, William, on April 14, 2008. He joins sister Morgan, 5. Barbara is at LaMore, Brazier, Riddle & Giampaoli in San Jose.

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Margaret (Glenn-Scheer) Akdeniz practices labor and employment law in her own firm in San Jose. Heather Angove is a research attorney in the Federal Public Defender's Office in San Jose. She teaches part-time at the School of Law in advanced criminal law and federal courts and jurisdiction. Richard Dayton has a small estate planning law firm in San Jose. Lisa Byerly Dettling is division counsel for LSI Corporation, handling IP licensing and commercial transactions. Joshua Hicks is chief of staff to the governor of Nevada. Carol Freden Hubner represents abused and neglected children in juvenile dependency actions. Paul Lewkowicz has his own law practice in patent preparation and prosecution and related transactions in Massachusetts. Stephanie Pries is director of investment legal affairs for the University of Notre Dame's Investment Office, which manages the University's endowment. Monica (Sanchez) Reyes works for the state of California as a judge on the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board. Benjamin Rice is assistant secretary of legal affairs and chief counsel for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Previously, he was deputy legal affairs secretary for the office of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Anu Sarma works in-house for VMWare, Inc. Clark Stone is a litigation partner at MacPherson Kwok in San Jose, focusing on intellectual property and general business litigation. Lucy Wang is a deputy attorney general in the Business and Tax Section of the Attorney General's Office in San Francisco.

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Catherine Bechtel returned as a partner at McManis Faulkner, after having recently been in solo practice. Dylan Liddiard is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto. He focuses on commercial and securities litigation, and has extensive experience litigating in state and federal courts and in major arbitration. Pallie Zambrano is an associate at McManis Faulkner in San Jose, where she practices civil litigation. She is co-president of the Northern/Central California chapter of the Pajama Program, a non-profit that collects new books and pajamas for children in shelters.

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Erik Edwards is a partner at Cooley Godward Kronish in Palo Alto. Jennifer Lewis is a partner at Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean in Oakland. She works on real estate and transaction issues, including lease acquisition and disposition of commercial property, corporate formation, financing, and compliance. She works primarily with clients in the wine, food and health/fitness industries. Suzanne Yost is president of the Rotary Club of Capitola/Aptos. She has been an active member for ten years. She practiced law for two years after graduation, then returned to selling real estate, which she has done for 29 years. She is a real estate broker. She has been active in such groups as the Cabrillo College Women's Education Success, CASA board of directors and the Santa Cruz and California Associations of Realtors.

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Laura Brown is legal services managing attorney at the D.C. Employment Justice Center, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit which provides legal assistance to low-income workers. She married Brian Vogt in January 2008. Chad Walsh was elected to the West Valley-Mission Community College board of trustees.

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Kristina Daniel Lawson is a shareholder at Miller Starr Regalia in Walnut Creek.

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Daniel Winter was promoted to the rank of lieutenant with the Santa Clara Police Department, and is a watch commander in the patrol division.

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Brandon L. Reeves is an associate attorney with the Sacramento law firm of Ellis, Coleman, Poirier, La Voie & Steinheimer. He focuses on class actions, defense of attorneys in malpractice cases, and defense of creditors under the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and Fair Credit Reporting Act. Previously he was a litigation associate with Greene, Chauvel, Descalso & Minoletti in San Mateo. David Thompson B.A, BSC '01 married Erin Russo BSC '05 on March 29, 2008, in Tucson. The couple lives in Portland, Ore.

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Akshay Verma is an associate in the environmental law group at Farella Braun + Martel in San Francisco. Previously, he was an associate at Pillsbury Winthrop in San Francisco, where he worked with clients on California's Global Warming Solutions Act, CERCLA, the Clean Water Act, NEPA, CEQA and the Clean Air Act.

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Melanie Albaracin B.A.'04 married Geoffrey Akers B.S.C. '04 on June 8, 2008, at Mission Santa Clara. Melanie is an assistant district attorney with Santa Cruz County and Geoffrey is a financial adviser at AIG Retirement. They live in San Jose. Nia Wooliscroft joined the Lyon County, Nev., District Attorney's Office, handling juvenile crimes. She previously clerked with Hon. David A. Huff of the Third Judicial District Court.