The Celtic Bar Association, an affiliate bar of the OCBA, honored OCBA members Ronald Schwartz and the Honorable H. Shaina Colover as Lawyer of the Year and Judge of the Year respectively.

?OCBA President-Elect Scott Garner, Partner at Umberg Zipser LLP, has been appointed as a member of the California Lawyers Association’s newly formed ethics committee.

OCBA Past President Dean Zipser, co-founding partner of Umberg Zipser LLP, will serve on Governor Newsom’s Judicial Selection Advisory Committee.

?OCBA member M.C. Sungaila, Partner at Haynes and Boone, LLP, is one of the 27 U.S. lawyers included in the National Law Journal’s 2019 Equality Trailblazers List.

Lance Cotton was selected as the inaugural TMBA Bar Scholarship recipient.

OCBA Past President Jennifer Keller, a nationally promi­nent attorney at Keller/Anderle LLP in Irvine, has been selected to the prestigious Chambers USA national ranking of lawyers.

The OCBA is pleased to announce that OCBA member the Honorable Nathan Scott will be honored by the Hispanic Bar Association of Orange County.

Congratulations to member Genevieve R. Walser-Jolly on being elected the new Member in Charge for Severson & Werson’s Orange County office.

The Constitutional Rights Foundation of Orange County (CRF-OC) honors OCBA member Hon. Lance P. Jensen, an Orange County Superior Court judge, with the Hon. James P. Gray Judge of the Year award.

OCBA member Elizabeth Weldon, a partner at Snell & Wilmer, has been designated a Certified Specialist in Franchise and Distribution Law by The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.