A dozen students from Thomas Jefferson School of Law have named to the "2010 Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges."
Those being recognized are Rashan Barnes. Nakhia Crossley, Carla Galindez, Kristen Gonzales, Kevin Harrington, Rosanna Kendrick, Cara Maas, Ellen McGlynn, Christopher Paulos, Michael Reed, Beatrice Resendes and Lisa Tapper.
Thomas Jefferson's selections were selected based on academic standing, participation in extracurricular activities and community services. They also had to survive the subjective test of being nominated by individual students, student organizations, faculty and administration.
"Who's Who Among Students" furthers the aims of higher education by rewarding and recognizing academic on excellence on a national level.
Nancy Stagg, a principal in the San Diego office of Fish & Richardson, has been selected by the U.S. District Court in San Diego to be one of its lawyer representatives to the 9th Circuit Judicial Conference.
As a lawyer representative, Stagg will serve as a liaison between the bench and the bar, representing attorneys practicing in the Southern District of California and providing support and advice in the functioning of the courts located within the 9th Circuit.
Stagg will serve a three-year term. She is one of 20 lawyers representing the Southern District of California. She will work closely with the district, bankruptcy and magistrate judges to foster open communications between judges and attorneys.
Stagg is the founder and head of Fish's Southern California business litigation practice. Her clients include local, regional and national companies, including Seagate Technology, Provide Commerce Inc. ("ProFlowers"), NexBio Inc., SerComm Corp. and Texas Instruments.
She also serves as the national chair of Fish & Richardson's Diversity Initiative.
Bradley A. Schuber has joined the California construction defect litigation firm of Anderson & Kriger. He has recent experience at LegalStaff of San Diego and spent 10 years as a construction paralegal with Arthur Bradley Design Build.
Schuber joins a construction defect litigation team of senior partner Clayton M. Anderson and attorney Mary Crenshaw Tyler to handle cases in San Diego and Imperial counties. The firm also has offices in Sacramento, Orange County, Riverside and Inland Empire, and Antelope Valley.
Schuber earned his law degree in 1999 from New York Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the law school's Journal of International & Comparative Law. Schuber has been an active member of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry since 2001, serving as chapter president, regional secretary and national chapter representative.
The San Diego Association of Legal Administrators' 2009 Law Firm Survey of Compensation & Benefits Report is now available for purchase. The survey includes San Diego area salary and benefit information for associates, administrators, paralegals, legal secretaries and general office staff jobs.
To order the survey results, or for additional details, check out the following Web site jimcolvillecpa.com/alasurvey/payment.html or contact Carrie Merzbacher at 858-942-2897 or by e-mail carrie.merzbacher@am.sony.com.
Those interested in becoming a member of the Association of Legal Administrators can contact Liz Mackres at 619-238-1811 or e-mail lizm@cglaw.com.
New ALA San Diego chapter members receive a free copy of the salary survey with their first year of membership.
I Love A Clean San Diego, the San Diego County Bar Association and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants are teaming up to host a shoreline cleanup of Playa Pacifica in Mission Bay this Saturday from 9-11 a.m.
The cleanup is part of the San Diego Bar's "Community Service -- Lawyers Giving Back" campaign, a year-long initiative designed to promote pro bono work, volunteerism and stewardship in the community. I Love A Clean San Diego, meanwhile, has been promoting volunteerism and community action to raise awareness about environmental problems facing San Diego for more than 55 years.
In the beach cleanup, SDCBA officials said, volunteers can spread out and make a clean sweep of an entire area in just a few hours, while sharing a valuable community service and educational experience together.
Details about other upcoming volunteer opportunities, as well as environmental resources, can be found on ILACSD's Web site, cleansd.org. For more information on the SDCBA's community service campaign, visit sdcba.org/lawyersgivingback.
California Society of Certified Public Accountants can be contacted at calcpa.org.
Thomas Jefferson School of Law associate dean and general counsel Jeff Joseph has been named as one of this year's recipients of the highly prestigious Bernard E. Witkin Award, presented by the San Diego Law Library Justice Foundation (LLJF).
The LLJF selected Joseph as "Educator of the Year" based on his reputation as a trial attorney, his reputation as an educator and his contributions to the law. The Bernard E. Witkin, Esq. Awards Dinner will be held on March 4, 2010, at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina.
Other honorees include Hon. Sharon Majors-Lewis for her distinguished service as an attorney; state Sen. Christine Kehoe for her distinguished service as community leader; and Hon. John J. Hargrove (ret.) for his distinguished service as a judge.
"I am very grateful to the Law Library Justice Foundation for this honor and to Thomas Jefferson School of Law for the opportunity to teach," Joseph said. "Most of all, I wish to thank the countless number of practicing lawyers who took a class from me over the past 20 years. Their passion to learn inspired my passion to teach."
The Witkin Award Dinner is the San Diego County Law Library Justice Foundation's annual fundraising event. A successful event will enable the Law Library to purchase the equipment for its new adaptive technology center for its visually impaired users, according to the awards committee.
