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Game Day! Nonprofit Clients to See Chargers; Law Firm Pays Tab

Ten kids who might not otherwise be able to do so, will be cheering on the Chargers this fall, thanks to The Gomez Law Firm. Gomez purchased 10 Chargers season tickets in the “family section” of Qualcomm Stadium. The tickets will be made available through San Diego nonprofit organizations. Like a number of terrific San Diego law firms, The Gomez Firm works to give back time, talent and treasure. Founder John Gomez mastered the quickstep by training for several months with a professional ballroom dancer so he could own the Malashock So You Think You Can Dance fundraiser and he was outstanding at the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program’s LAF-Off.

Ramona Cyr Whitley is now director of client services at Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP. The legal market and business development expert, and just all-around terrific person, was previously director of marketing and business development at McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, and business development and marketing director at the former Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP. Michael Guzzo also just joined Allen Matkins, as the marketing and communications manager for the San Diego office. He will be managing public relations for the firm statewide, and managing the firm’s San Diego marketing efforts.

Wilson Turner Kosmo LLP has hired three new associates, which brings the total attorney count at the firm to 26. Carolina Bravo-Karimi, James Leonard and Christina Tapia will practice in the firm’s employment law group.

Bravo-Karimi, Leonard and Tapia will focus on corporate employment matters such as wrongful termination, defamation, discrimination, wage and hour, and workers’ compensation discrimination. Bravo-Karimi was a law clerk to the Hon. Louisa S. Porter in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of California, prior to joining the firm. Leonard was formerly with Paul, Plevin, Sullivan & Connaughton. Tapia was most recently in Gordon & Rees’s San Diego office employment practice group and previously was a deputy attorney general in the Correctional Writs and Appeals Section of the Attorney General’s Office.

Attorneys and staff at Best Best & Krieger LLP across California and in Washington D.C. put their packing skills to good use recently when they stuffed new backpacks with school supplies for students who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. This is the third year the law firm has partnered with various affiliates of Volunteers of America to undertake the effort.

“These kids are already facing tough challenges. By giving them the tools they need to thrive in school, we can help them …,” said Jamie Zamoff, the firm’s chief operating officer.

In all, BB&K stuffed 375 backpacks with supplies for pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. The supplies, such as spiral notebooks, pencils, erasers, sharpeners, calculators, pens, crayons, glue sticks and three-ring binders, were donated by BB&K attorneys and staff as well as OfficeMax and Merrill Corp.

Duane Morris LLP partner Eberhard Röhm of the firm’s corporate practice group has relocated from New York to the San Diego office. The move will allow him to better serve his many international clients with operations in California and throughout Asia, including China, Singapore and Vietnam. A native of Munich, Röhm’s practice is focused on international transactional matters with Germany and other European Union countries. He oversaw the U.S. legal practice of the Ernst & Young global legal network prior to joining Duane Morris.

Mike Krenn has joined Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP as chief marketing officer. Krenn will lead Procopio’s firm-wide marketing and business development initiatives, including strategic marketing, practice group development and planning, business development strategies, marketing technology, client relations, corporate sponsorships, public relations, and both internal and external communications.

U. S. District Judge Anthony Battaglia denied class certification last month in a case defended by Procopio attorneys, a huge win for client Welk Resort. Partner Marie Burke Kenny was the lead attorney in the case and successfully argued the opposition to plaintiff’s motion for class certification. Kenny was assisted by associate Elizabeth Alvarado, staff attorney Rob Housden, and paralegal Jacqui Flores from Procopio as well as, no hard feelings here, several attorneys from Kenny’s prior firm Luce, Forward, now McKenna Long.

Mark your calendar, electronic and the print backup: this year’s San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program annual “Justice for All Celebration” is slated for Sept. 13 at the San Diego Museum of Man in Balboa Park. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for networking, heavy hors d’oeuvres and a no host bar. The program begins at 7 p.m. The event will feature awards for outstanding pro bono contributions as well as a presentation by an SDVLP client about the services received.

Randy C. Frisch is the president and publisher of the San Diego Business Journal. He is licensed to practice law in California, Nevada and Idaho. He can be reached at rfrisch@sdbj.com.

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