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Ruben Smith is an influential Latino leader throughout California with extensive legal experience. He is managing shareholder of one of California’s largest diverse and women-owned law firms and general counsel to Rancho Santiago Community College District. Smith also served in the White House and as general counsel to the Santa Ana Unified School District. He ...

Fifteen Wilson Turner Kosmo attorneys have been selected for inclusion on the San Diego Super Lawyers list that distinguishes just five percent of regionally-practicing attorneys through peer nominations and evaluations. Partner Claudette G. Wilson, who ranked among the list’s highest rated attorneys, was also recognized among San Diego’s Top 25 Women lawyers.   Four firm partners Michael ...

The Firm is proud  to announce that George D. Sax  has been named a Sustaining Member of PLAC Inc., formerly known as the Product Liability Advisory Council.  PLAC is a not-for-profit association of more than 100 companies which manufacture, distribute or supply products and services, as well as select regulatory, litigation and appellate professionals who work to ...

NAMWOLF CEO, Joel Stern, recently participated in the webinar “How to Increase Diverse Spend in the Legal Category” organized by the Buying Legal Council. Hosted by Adrienne Fox, Director of Global Procurement – Legal Services at Novartis, and Milly Parekh, Legal Services Manager, at Johnson & Johnson, the webinar featured a wide-range of resources corporations ...

For the third consecutive year, Blackwell Burke earned Benchmark Litigation’s highest recognition as Minnesota Firm of the Year. Blackwell Burke was selected from a short list of “highly recommended” firms that included Dorsey & Whitney, Faegre Baker Daniels, Maslon LLP, Robins Kaplan, Bowman and Brooke, and Ciresi Conlin among others. These firms are consistently mentioned ...

COLUMBIA, SC:  Amy Gaffney, Regina Lewis, and Lee Ellen Bagley are excited to notify our NAMWOLF colleagues and friends that as of March 1, Gaffney Lewis & Edwards, South Carolina’s women-owned, ethnically-diverse litigation firm, will become GaffneyLewis, LLC.   Former partner, Susan (Edwards) Strom, has started a boutique, family law practice and will no longer be ...

On December 17, 2018, the Appellate Court of Illinois (First District) held that the de facto officer doctrine should be applied to bar a challenge by a correctional officer to the constitution of the Cook County Sheriff’s Merit Board.  Steven Cruz v. Thomas J. Dart, et al., 2018 IL App (1st) 170915-U. The Cruz decision is the second to be ...