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  • Ruby Banipal (’10) recently left her position with Ernst & Young to join DLA Piper’s tax practice based in Chicago. Her focus is primarily on private wealth planning (everything from trusts/estates to business/corporate formation, M&A and financial governance). She works with a small group of highly specialized tax attorneys and works on complicated planning/restructuring projects and to develop client relationships.

  • Michelle Tran (’10) is the new Chair of the Young Lawyers Division (YLD) of the Orange County Bar Association, replacing Van Ha (’10).

  • Sandra Diaz (’06) became the President of the Southern California Region of the nonprofit National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA).

    Allison Lin (’12)

    Allison Lin (’12)

  • Allison Lin (’12) and Robert Odell (’12) formed their own firm this year, Workplace Justice Advocates, PLC, with their colleague Tamara S. Freeze, specializing in representing employees in primarily wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, medical leave/accommodation, and wage and hour cases. The three managing shareholders recently also prevailed in a published decision from the California Court of Appeal:  Hartwell Harris v. Bingham McCutchen LLP et al., 214 Cal. App. 4th 1399 (2013).

    Robert Odell (’12)

    Robert Odell (’12)

  • Anastasia “Ana” Lang (Sohrakoff) (’08) joined the Emerging Companies practice group at Perkins Coie. Lang is based in the Boise office and focuses her practice on corporate formation, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, technology transfer transactions and general business. She represents companies in transactions across industries such as software, digital media and Internet services. Read more.

  • Farouk Systems appointed alumnus Jason L. Rumsey (’01) as General Counsel.  Read more.

  • Jered Ede (’10) recently moved to Green & Hall APC as an Associate Attorney.

  • Rachel Tallon Reynolds ( Pickens) (’05) was recently published in the American Bar Association Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal, Vol. 48, Issue 1.

  • Leslie Ivie (’08) joined the Liberty Hill Foundation as the Interim Director of Development. The Liberty Hill Foundation, located in Los Angeles, advances social change through a strategic combination of grants, leadership training and campaigns.

  • Antionette Balta (’06) has been assigned to lead Public Law Center’s new veterans project, Operation Veterans Re-Entry, a program dedicated to providing Orange County veterans and their families with free legal assistance to facilitate their re-entry into civilian life.

  • Cecilia Hong (’12) was appointed as Director of Communication and Assistant Policy Advisor for Orange County, District Three. She will be working at the Santa Ana Civic Center’s Hall of Administration.

  • Jake Vollebregt (’08) joined Best & Krieger as a public law associate. Jake previously served as a Captain and Judge Advocate in the United States Marine Corps where he was a trial counsel and legal assistance attorney.