John H. Brinsley
Term Ends: September 2012
John H. Brinsley received the Shattuck-Price Memorial Award in 2001, the Los Angeles County Bar Association's highest honor. The award is given to an individual who has shown outstanding dedication to the high principles of the legal profession, to the administration of justice and to the progress of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Mr. Brinsley received his B.A. and J.D. from Cornell University. He joined the board in 2004.
George Buehler
Geragos & Geragos
Term Ends: September 2011
George Buehler has distinguished himself in both civil and criminal law with an emphasis on business litigation and white collar criminal defense. He earned his J.D. from the University of Southern California. From 1997 to 2000 he served on the Blue Ribbon Commission for Slum Housing, which developed legislation to improve the enforcement of building codes which was adopted by the Los Angeles City Council. Mr. Buehler joined the board in 1997.
Caroline Heindel Burgos
Greenberg Glusker
Term Ends: 2011
Caroline Heindel Burgos is an attorney in the litigation practice group of Greenberg Glusker, where she represents a diverse group of individuals and companies in entertainment, real estate and general business disputes. She coordinates the firm's foster care benefits program in conjunction with the Alliance for Children's Rights. Ms. Burgos earned a J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles (cum laude, Order of the Coif) and holds a B.S. in Business Administration from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She joined the board in 2008.
Evan Y. Chuck
Bryan Cave LLP
Evan Chuck is the Lead Partner in charge of Bryan Cave LLP’s Shanghai office and China Practice. Mr. Chuck is a member of the International Trade and Transactions Client Service Groups. He earned his B.A. from John Hopkins University and J.D. from George Washington University. Mr. Chuck joined the board in 2006.
Carla T. Clement
LexisNexis
Term Ends: September 2010
Carla Clement, a strategic account manager at LexisNexis, has 20 years of diverse law-related experience, ranging from in-firm litigation support to operations management, trial consulting, and hands on marketing and sales experience. She has a Bachelors Degree in Marketing from the University of Cincinnati where she graduated summa cum laude. In addition to serving on the Board of Inner City Law Center, Ms Clement is on the Board of Learning for Life, an organization focused on career exposure and civic development of teenage youth.
Michael E. Cobo
DecisionQuest
Term Ends: September 2012
Michael Cobo is Chief Operating Officer and a founding member of DecisionQuest, a firm dedicated to understanding juror decision making, persuasion, demonstrative visuals and trial technology. He has a B.S. in Marketing and Accounting from the University of Southern California. Mr. Cobo has over 20 years of experience in trial consulting and has been involved in over 700 cases worldwide. He joined the board in 1995.
Janet Combs
Southern California Edison Company
Term Ends: September 2011
Janet is a Senior Attorney in Southern California Edison’s Law Department, where she has practiced regulatory litigation and transactions for over seven years. Janet represents SCE in proceedings before the California Public Utilities Commission, specializing in customer service, tariff, municipalization and bypass issues. Recent cases include the Edison SmartConnect™ application, in which Janet successfully represented SCE in obtaining authority to install state-of-the-art “smart” meters in approximately 5.3 million households and small businesses through its service territory -- a $1.3 billion capital investment for the company. Janet also currently serves on the Edison Law Department’s Pro Bono Committee, and has represented pro bono clients in the areas of disability rights, employment rights, tenant rights, and adoptions.
Janet began her legal career in 2000 at McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen (now Bingham McCutchen) practicing corporate law in the Los Angeles office. Janet received her J.D. from University of California Hastings College of the Law in 2000, and her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1992.
Jeffrey H. Dasteel
Attorney at Law
Jeff Dasteel has a nationwide litigation practice and represents clients in international and domestic arbitrations. In addition, he has a nationwide franchising litigation and transaction practice. Mr. Dasteel is an adjunct professor of franchise law at Loyola Law School of Los Angeles. He received his J.D. from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, cum laude. Mr. Dasteel represents clients across a variety of industries in high-profile international, national, and local complex commercial litigation. He joined the board in 1992.
Timothy P. Dillon
Law Offices of Timothy P. Dillon
Term Ends: September 2012
Timothy Dillon’s practice is devoted to helping consumers with a focus on representing policyholders in first party disputes against their own insurance companies. Mr. Dillon has experience in many areas of commercial litigation as a founding member of a large Los Angeles law firm. He graduated from State University of New York at Albany with a B.S. summa cum laude, and went on to earn his J.D. from the College of William and Mary. Mr. Dillon has served as President of the Laguna Beach Community Clinic, which provides excellent healthcare to 20,000 patients each year, regardless of a patient's ability to pay. Mr. Dillon participated in the successful settlements of the Pineda case and the Bellevue case with Inner City Law Center lawyers and other counsel. He joined the board in 2006.
James R. Evans, Jr.
Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP
Term Ends: September 2012
James Evans is a Partner at Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP. Mr. Evans received a B.S. from the University of Southern California and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). Among his many clients, he represents publicly traded companies, business owners, property owners, developers, architects, contractors, and professional and amateur athletes. Mr. Evans is an avid community volunteer concerned with improving the quality of life for the less fortunate. He joined the board in 2006.
Thomas A. Freiberg, Jr.
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp
Term Ends: September 2010
Thomas Freiberg specializes in litigation involving eminent domain, inverse condemnation, and land use at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp. Mr. Freiberg earned a B.A. from Yale College and a J.D. from the University of Southern California. Mr. Freiberg has served as a member of the Board of Directors at ICLC since 1997 and has served as President from 2004-2007.
Gordon A. Greenberg
McDermott, Will & Emery
Gordon A. Greenberg is a partner in the Trial Department, of McDermott Will & Emery. Mr. Greenberg graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and earned a J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law (with honors). Mr. Greenberg is acknowledged by the Los Angeles Business Journal as one of the top 50 trial lawyers in Los Angeles and is recognized in his field of practice in The Best Lawyers in America.
Stephen Kristovich
Munger Tolles & Olson
Steve Kristovich is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP. Mr. Kristovich received his A.B. degree from Stanford University with distinction and his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). His practice consists principally of complex business, environmental and toxic tort litigation in state and federal trial and appellate courts throughout California. Mr. Kristovich has been an ICLC board member since 1992 and has served as President of the Board.
Margaret Levy
Manatt Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Term Ends: September 2012
Margaret Levy is a Partner at Manatt Phelps & Phillips, LLP. She earned a B.A. from Michigan State University and a J.D. from UCLA School of Law. Ms. Levy has more than 30 years of civil trial and appellate litigation experience, with an emphasis on representing life, health and disability insurance companies in "bad faith" and ERISA litigation. She has been a member of the Board since 1996, and has also served on the Boards of Public Counsel, the Los Angeles County Bar Foundation, UCLA Law School Alumni Association, Women and Philanthropy at UCLA and the Association of Business Trial Lawyers.
Michael M. Maddigan
O’Melveny and Myers LLP
Term Ends: September 2011
Michael M. Maddigan is a partner in O'Melveny & Myers' Los Angeles office and a member of the Health Care and Life Sciences and Class Actions, Mass Torts, and Aggregated Litigation Practices. Mr. Maddigan graduated from Georgetown University, B.S.F.S., cum laude, and earned a J.D. from the University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). He joined the board in 2003.
Nancy Mintie
Uncommon Good
Founder of Inner City Law Center
Nancy Mintie started Inner City Law Center in 1980. Since leaving Inner City Law Center in 2002, Nancy has continued to challenge the way we address the problems we face. She runs an organization called Uncommon Good which aims to make sure that the poor have access to affordable health care, quality education, and legal services. Uncommon Good provides mentoring programs for youth living in poverty, and assistance to young doctors and lawyers who hope to serve the poorest communities.
Thomas J. Nolan
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, LLP
Tom Nolan is co-chair of Skadden’s West Coast Litigation Practice. Mr. Nolan earned a B.B.A. and J.D. from Loyola University. He is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading trial attorneys and has extensive experience representing corporations and individuals in complex civil and criminal litigation in state and federal courts. Mr. Nolan received Inner City Law Center’s Katherine Krause Award for his pro bono work on behalf of tenants in slum housing in 2001.
Jenie Oh
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
Term Ends: September 2011
Jenie Oh is Senior Counsel in the Legal Group of Wells Fargo Bank and primarily focuses on international commercial credit matters. Ms. Oh earned her B.A. from Dartmouth College and her J.D. from NYU Law School. She joined the board in 2009.
Sharon Oxborough
Law Offices of Sharon Oxborough
Term Ends: September 2010
Sharon Oxborough is the principal of Law Offices of Sharon Oxborough, which specializes in monitoring consent decrees and administering alternative dispute resolution systems. Its most notable present activity is administering the arbitration system that resolves disputes between Kaiser Permanente and its six million members in California. Ms. Oxborough earned a B.A. from Hamline University, summa cum laude, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, cum laude, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. She joined the board in 2007.
Alfredo Sanchez
Citibank (Banamex USA)
Term Ends: September 2011
Alfredo Sanchez is Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Citibank (Banamex USA), a subsidiary of Citigroup Inc. Mr. Sanchez earned his B.A. from California State University at Fullerton and his J.D. from the University of Southern California. He joined the board in 2009.
Nicole Simonian
Bryan Cave LLP
Term Ends: 2010
Nicole Simonian is a partner in Bryan Cave LLP's Santa Monica office. She concentrates her practice in the areas of international transactions, including acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures and strategic alliances. She represents a broad array of U.S. and foreign companies in structuring their international operations in Asia, Europe and Latin America. She was selected as a Southern California Super Lawyer "Rising Star" for 2005, 2006 and 2007 by the publishers of Law and Politics. Ms. Simonian received her J.D. from Loyola Law School-Los Angeles and her B.A. from University of California-Los Angeles. She joined the board in 2008.
Michael Spindler
Capstone Advisory Group, LLC
Term Ends: September 2010
Michael Spindler is an Executive Director of Capstone Advisory Group, LLC. Prior to joining Capstone, Mr. Spindler was a partner at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP. He has more than 25 years experience in forensic accounting, investigations, anti-fraud programs and auditing services, with extensive experience in conducting a broad range of dispute consulting services. Mr. Spindler earned a B.S. in Accounting from State University of New York at Albany and is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner and a Certified Information Systems Auditor. He joined the board in 1995.
Geoffrey Stover
Paul Hastings
Term Ends: September 2010
Geoffrey Stover represents clients in a variety of civil litigation and pre-litigation contexts. Mr. Stover has defended and prosecuted claims involving large commercial contractual disputes, misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair business practices, construction defects, Proposition 65 failure to warn, environmental matters and partnership disputes.
Mr. Stover received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Wesleyan University in 1995. He graduated with honors and was a founding member of the Wesleyan chapter of MeCHA, a Chicano student organization.
Christopher Tayback
Quinn Emanuel
Term Ends: September 2012
Chris Tayback spent eight years as a prosecutor before joining the Quinn Emanuel firm in 1997. He was a Deputy District Attorney in Los Angeles County from 1989-1991, where he tried over 20 cases before juries in the municipal and superior courts. He then served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Central District of California, Criminal Division, receiving numerous awards from the various federal and local law enforcement agencies with which he worked.
Mr. Tayback received a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, magna cum laude and his J.D. from Harvard Law School, cum laude. Mr. Tayback annually serves as a visiting trial advocacy instructor at Harvard Law School. He has appeared on ABC television's "Nightline" discussing criminal law issues, and has had his cases featured on the television program "Arrest and Trial." He has represented lawyers in court proceedings and in investigations and hearings conducted by the Department of Justice, the Securities Exchange Commission and the United States Senate. Mr. Tayback joined the board in 2009.
Steven Thomas
Irell & Manella, LLP
Term Ends: September 2010
Steve Thomas, a partner in Irell & Manella LLP’s Los Angeles office, is the head of the firm's art law practice group, and a member of the real estate and commercial finance practice groups. Mr. Thomas has for many years advised on the loan, purchase, auction, sale, and collection of fine art, cultural property and memorabilia, both nationally and internationally (including, setting several world auction and private sale records), and has for several years taught a course in Art and Cultural Property Law at the UCLA School of Law. Mr. Thomas counts among his clients some of the world’s foremost and well-known art collectors, including trustees from a variety of museums. Mr. Thomas also has extensive experience in a wide array of real property matters, including development, acquisition, and sale of improved and unimproved real property, and developing construction and architect agreements for commercial and estate properties, including some of the larger casinos and resorts in the country. He has a J.D. from Yale University, where he was also book review editor for the Yale Law and Policy Review. Mr. Thomas joined the board in 1998.
Bradley E. Wolf
Wells Fargo Law Department
Term Ends: September 2012
Bradley Wolf is Senior Counsel in the Legal Group of Wells Fargo. His areas of practice include Commercial Law and Corporate Finance. Mr. Wolf earned his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and his J.D. from the University of Southern California Law Center. He joined the board in 2006.
Michael L. Wolfram
Wolfram Workplace Law
Term Ends: September 2012
Michael Wolfram’s firm is devoted to the avoidance of workplace disputes, objective independent investigation of disputes that arise, and to fair and informed resolution of disputes that are mediated or arbitrated. Mr. Wolfram graduated from Harvard College, cum laude, and then went on to earn his J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, cum laude. He joined the board in 1998.
Dorothy Wolpert
Bird Marella Boxer & Wolpert
Term Ends: September 2010
Dorothy Wolpert is a founding member of the firm, Bird Marella Boxer & Wolpert. She earned her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Ms. Wolpert’s practice includes trial experience in copyright infringement, environmental coverage disputes, legal malpractice (as both plaintiff and defendant), and several precedential cases related to the construction of the Los Angeles subway. Ms. Wolpert is a past President of ICLC and has served on the Board of Directors since 1999. She has partnered with ICLC on numerous cases such as the Bellevue Case where ICLC was able to secure $6.9 million for its clients.
Dan Woods
White & Case LLP
Term Ends: September 2011
Dan Woods is a Partner at White & Case LLP. He specializes in complex business litigation throughout the United States and is head of the Los Angeles litigation practice. Mr. Woods received a B.A. from the University of Southern California, cum laude and his J.D. from the University of Southern California Law Center. Mr. Woods received Inner City Law Center’s Katherine Krause Award for his pro bono work on behalf of tenants in slum housing buildings in 2000. Mr. Woods joined the board in 1999.
