Legal Management

2008 Outstanding Legal Management Professionals and Best Office Environment and Culture in a Law Firm

This is the culmination of a peer voting process in which The Daily Transcript and the Association of Legal Administrators honor outstanding law firm management professionals and firms with the best office environment and culture.

2008 Outstanding Legal Management Professionals

Individual

Joel DeVos

Administrator

Wilson Petty Kosmo & Turner

Individual

Tom Dickerson

Practice Services Manager

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Individual

Patricia Groff

Director of Administration

Butz Dunn & DeSantis

Individual

Darlene Hart

Director of Human Resources

Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP

Individual

Judith A. Hissong, CLM

Chief Operations Officer

Solomon Grindle Silverman & Spinella

Individual

Melanie Leander

Office Manager, San Diego

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney

Individual

Liz Mackres

Casey Gerry Schenk Francavilla Blatt & Penfield LLP

Individual

Patty Marshall

Paul, Plevin, Sullivan & Connaughton LLP

Individual

Betty Murphy

Levine, Steinberg, Miller and Huver

Individual

Wendy Wilkins

Administrator

Latham & Watkins LLP

2008 Best Office Environment and Culture in a Law Firm

2008 Best Office Environment and Culture in a Law Firm

Morrison & Foerster

Morrison & Foerster is one of the world's largest full-service law firms with more than 1,000 attorneys located in 17 key financial and technology centers around the world. Morrison & Foerster offers clients comprehensive, global legal services in business and litigation. The firm is distinguished by its unsurpassed expertise in finance, life sciences and technology, its legendary litigation skills and an unrivaled reach across the Pacific Rim, particularly in Japan and China.

The San Diego office is a full-service office with local expertise and resident partners in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, patent strategy and prosecution, collaborations and licensing agreements, trade secret litigation and counseling, employment and labor, and commercial, intellectual property and securities litigation. With 80 attorneys, we have grown dramatically over the last nine years to become one of the 10 largest law firms in San Diego County.

Mark C. Zebrowski is the managing partner of the San Diego office.