George Buehler
Geragos & Geragos
Term Ends: September 2008
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 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
Term Ends: September 2009
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 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 2009
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.
Jeffrey H. Dasteel
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, LLP
Term Ends: September 2010
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 2009
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 2009
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
Term Ends: September 2008
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
Term Ends: September 2008
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 2009
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 2008
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.
Thomas J. Nolan
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, LLP
Term Ends: September 2007
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.
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.
Eric D. Shapland
Heller Ehrman, LLP
Term Ends: September 2008
Eric Shapland joined Heller Ehrman, LLP in 1997. He graduated from the University
of California, Davis, and went on to earn a J.D. from the University of California,
Los Angeles. Mr. Shapland practices antitrust law and has been responsible
for developing strategies for trial, dispositive motions and class certification
proceedings for a variety of Fortune 500 companies. He joined the board in
2006.
Nicole Simonian
Bryan Cave LLP
Term Ends: 2011
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
Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
Term Ends: September 2010
Michael Spindler is 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.
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 2009
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 2009
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 2008
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.
