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Earley Joins West Health as Chief Administration Officer

Bill Earley is now the chief administration officer and general counsel at West Health, a family of nonprofits dedicated to enabling seniors to successfully age.

Earley, a San Diego native and incredibly good guy, joins West Health after serving for three years as regional chief executive officer of the American Red Cross of San Diego/Imperial Counties.

Earley will be responsible for all administrative and operational aspects of West Health’s applied medical research and policy work in support of successful aging. This includes overseeing the organizations’ financial, human resources, information technology and other administrative functions. As general counsel, he will lead West Health’s legal, compliance and governance efforts. Given his strong community relationships, Earley will also play a critical role in West Health’s local and state advocacy endeavors.

Prior to the Red Cross, Earley was a partner and attorney for more than 24 years at what is now the international law firm Dentons (formerly McKenna Long & Aldridge and Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps). He also had his own law and management consulting firm, The Earley Group Inc.

He received the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal Award in 1985 for exemplary community service and has worked with more than a dozen regional nonprofits, boards and public service entities.

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University of San Diego School of Law and RJS LAW have established the USD School of Law-RJS Law Tax Controversy Institute. The institute is presenting a day-long seminar on issues including federal and state audit strategies, tax penalties, and criminal tax matters. U.S. Tax Court Judge Mark Holmes is a featured speaker. The Aug. 11 event, appropriately, will take place at the USD Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Theatre.

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A San Francisco federal judge has appointed Casey Gerry’s managing partner David S. Casey, Jr. to the national Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee (PSC) overseeing the Eco Diesel Litigation against Fiat Chrysler now pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Casey Jr. and Rachel Jensen of Robbins Geller are the only San Diego attorneys to serve on the committee, which now oversees litigation for In re Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep EcoDiesel Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability, MDL No. 17-MD-02777-EMC – a case similar to the VW Diesel Emissions litigation. Plaintiffs allege Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV installed emission-cheating devices — hiding the true emission levels that exceeded government standards — in select Jeep and Dodge vehicles, selling them as “eco-diesel” vehicles.

U.S. District Court Judge Edward Chen of the Northern District of California, presiding over the litigation, named Casey Jr. as one of nine attorneys on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee.

Casey Jr., whose father founded San Diego’s oldest plaintiffs’ law firm 70 years ago, also serves on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee for the Volkswagen “Clean Diesel” Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation, which yielded billions for consumers and environmental remediation and stands as the largest consumer auto industry class action settlement in history.

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United Way of San Diego County named Dave Carothers, partner at Carothers DiSante & Freudenberger LLP., as chairman of its board.

The United Way said Carothers will serve on the executive committee, lead the 27-member volunteer board of directors and provide general oversight of board policy implementation. As partner at CDF, a statewide management-side labor, employment and immigration law firm, he brings more than 30 years of legal practice to the courtroom.

Carothers is also CDF’s diversity committee chairperson and a founding participant and committee member of the San Diego County Bar Association Diversity Fellowship Program. He was appointed to the Fair Employment and Housing Commission by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in November 2008. Carothers has served on the boards of the Neighborhood House Association, the San Diego Police Review Board and the Inner City Games Foundation.

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Valentine S. Hoy, a partner at Allen Matkins, has been elected to serve as board of administration president of The San Diego City Employees’ Retirement System (SDCERS)

Appointed to the board by former Mayor Jerry Sanders in 2011, Hoy served as chair of the board’s Business and Governance Committee for the past two years and as vice president of the board for the past year. He succeeds Alan Arrollado, who held the position of board president for the past two years. Hoy previously served as a trustee and board president of the San Diego Museum of Man.

“Several years ago, SDCERS was a troubled system that made headlines for all the wrong reasons. Through years of careful stewardship and disciplined management, it has become a model for pension systems everywhere,” Hoy said. “That careful stewardship and disciplined management must continue into the future, through good years and bad.”

SDCERS administers defined benefit plans for the City of San Diego, the San Diego Unified Port District, and the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority and provides service retirement, disability retirement, death and survivor benefits to more than 20,800 members.

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Pettit Kohn Ingrassia & Lutz PC co-founding Shareholder Damian Dolin is being recognized by the firm. The firm is now named Pettit Kohn Ingrassia Lutz & Dolin.

The honor recognizes Dolin’s contribution to the firm’s growth over the last decade. Dolin led the expansion of the firm’s personal injury practice and has obtained in excess of $23 million in verdicts and settlements for clients. Among his many accolades, he was awarded membership in the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum for his jury verdict in Huber v. Sharp Healthcare, et al.

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