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.

Monday, October 7, 2019 at 5:30 p.m. 
OCBA Headquarters, Newport Beach

Last week, the OCBA Corporate Counsel Section hosted another successful Circle of Counsel that brought together Southern California’s in-house leaders and rising stars to connect and engage.

The OCBA Appellate Law Section hosted a candid discussion to hear from a distinguished panel of Ninth Circuit Judges.

?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.

The OCBA leadership election is now open for online voting.

Hon. Commissioner Thomas Schulte (Ret.) passed away on August 20, 2019. He was 74 years old. He retired in August 2011, having served the Orange County Superior Court for over 20 years.

The Orange County Bar Association Charitable Fund will honor the Orange County Superior Court Collaborative Courts Program as its 2019 Community Partner Honoree of the OCBA Charitable Fund Annual Benefit, Keller/Anderle LLP as the Law Firm Honoree, and The Home Depot as the Corporate Honoree during tomorrow night’s OCBA Charitable Fund Annual Benefit.