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NEWS FOR MEMBERS

The State Bar AppointmentsCommittee is currently acceptingapplications from active members ingood standing to fill the followingupcoming vacancies. Applicationforms are due at the State Bar office byMonday, Nov. 19, 2007, and can beobtained by calling Carrie Sherman inthe State Bar’s Phoenix office at (602)340-7201 or Amy Ihrke in the StateBar’s Tucson office at (520) 623-9944. An application form can also bedownloaded from the Bar’s Web site(www.myazbar.org – refer toAppointment Committee News).

The Standing Appoint-mentsCommittee and the Board ofGovernors consider all aspects of diver-sity in their recommendations andappointments.

City of Glendale Judicial Selection Advisory BoardApplication Deadline: Monday, Nov. 19, 2007

Purpose: To seek out and encourage qualified individuals to apply for the office of Judge of the GlendaleCity Court; conduct investigations into the background and qualifications of said individuals/applicants;submit recommendations regarding candidates for appointment or reappointment to the Chief PresidingCity Court Judge and the Mayor, who thereafter shall convene the City Council for the purpose of inter-viewing all candidates recommended.

Openings: One. Karen Karr has resigned from the board due to her relocation outside the Glendale citylimits. The other board members are: Judge Philip Hall, Arizona Court of Appeals; Judge ColleenMcNally, Maricopa County Superior Court; Judge Elizabeth Finn, Glendale City Court (non-votingmember); Peter E. Van Camp, Maricopa County Bar Association representative; and public membersKaren Ewing, Martin Samaniego and Art Dobbelaere. The Board of Governors is asked to submit threenominations to the Glendale City Council for its ultimate selection to fill the State Bar designated seat.

Criteria/Qualifications: Applicants must be active members of, and in good standing with, the State Barof Arizona and reside in the City of Glendale.

Term: Fill Ms. Karr’s unexpired term to April 23, 2009. The successful candidate would then be eligiblefor reappointment to a full three-year term.

PROFESSIONAL VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

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Patent attorneys Jerry Fellows and Raye L.Daugherty have joined the intellectual proper-ty practice at Greenberg Traurig LLP.

Arturo Alejandro Thompson has joinedShughart Thomson & Kilroy PC as an associ-ate in the firm’s bankruptcy practice.

Jaburg & Wilk PC announced that Laura A.Rogal and Lisa S. Soo have joined the firm.Rogal joins the litigation group, and Soo joinsthe firm’s business, real estate and transactionalpractice.

Roberto Pulver has joined Quarles & BradyLLP and practices in the firm’s health caregroup.

The Phoenix School of Law announced newfaculty members for its 2007-08 academic year.David Cole, retired Maricopa County SuperiorCourt judge, and Jalae Ulicki, director of theMichigan State University Rental Housing

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Clinic, join as assistant professors.Michael O’Connor, former asso-ciate professor at the University ofSt. Thomas School of Law inMinnesota, and Sharmila Roy, anattorney with the Maricopa CountyPublic Defender’s Office, join asassociate professors. DouglasMcFarland, Hamline University,and Nicholas Rine, University ofMichigan, join as visiting profes-sors. Retired Maricopa SuperiorCourt judges Robert Myers andJonathan Schwartz and Snell &Wilmer partner Damon Boyd joinas adjunct professors.

Roderick J. Coffey was electedpartner at Stinson MorrisonHecker LLP. He practices in thefirm’s business litigation division.

Attorney Daniel Garrison willlead the new bankruptcy practice at

Shughart Thomson & Kilroy PCin Phoenix.

Mark Bogard, David Farren,Jonathan Ibsen and ValerieMarciano have been named part-ners at Jaburg & Wilk PC.

Former U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency SeniorAttorney and Arizona AssistantAttorney General Nancy A.Mangone has opened theMangone Law Firm PC. Thefirm focuses on environmental,natural resources and municipallaw, and is located at 3636 N.Central Ave., Suite 700, Phoenix,AZ 85012.

J. Scott Rhodes, a partner withJennings Strouss & Salmon PLC,

was appointed to the MesaJudicial Advisory Board.

The American Bar Associationappointed Maricopa CountySuperior Court Judge Samuel A.Thumma to its StandingCommittee on Ethics andProfessional Responsibility JudgesAdvisory Committee.

Maricopa County Superior CourtPresiding Judge BarbaraRodriguez Mundell has beenelected to serve on the board ofthe National Center for StateCourts.

Phoenix attorney Paula Bickettreceived the Marvin Award fromthe National Association ofAttorneys General, recognizingdedicated service and leadership tothe association.

The U.S. Forest Service honoredAssistant United States AttorneysGlenn McCormick and SteveLogan for their successful prosecu-tion of large-scale marijuana grow-ing operations that were eradicatedin the summer of 2005 and fall of2006.

Marilyn Seymann, AssociateDean of External Affairs at theSandra Day O’Connor College ofLaw at Arizona State University,has been appointed to the ArizonaCommission on JudicialPerformance Review.

Diandra Day Benally, a staffattorney with Navajo NationDepartment of Justice in WindowRock, received the OutstandingYoung Lawyer of the Year Awardfor 2007 from the State Bar ofNew Mexico.

Gallagher & Kennedy PA share-holder Robert D. Dalager hasbeen elected to the board ofGoodwill of Central Arizona.

Lawrence E. Wilk, an attorneywith Jaburg & Wilk PC, andJennings Strouss & Salmon part-ners Carolyn Johnsen and FredCummings were inducted as fel-lows into the Litigation Counselof America.

Kurt Brueckner, a partner withTitus Brueckner & Berry PC,received the Award of Excellencefrom the Scottsdale BarAssociation.

Kelly Johnson, an attorney withRyley Carlock & Applewhite inPhoenix, was crowned Ms.Arizona United States Woman2007 at the Arizona United StatesPageant.

Mesch Clark & Rothschild found-ing partner Lowell E. Rothschild

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received the Distinguished AlumnusConvocation Award from the University ofArizona College of Law.

Greenberg Traurig attorney Michael C. Masonhas been elected to the boards of the FederalBar Association’s Phoenix Chapter and theBoys and Girls Clubs of the East Valley.

The National Law Journal named Snell &Wilmer partner Patricia Lee Refo one of the 50Most Influential Women Lawyers in America.

William F. Haug, a partner of Jennings Haug& Cunningham LLP, received the inauguralPro Bono Service Award from the ArizonaSupreme Court.

Ted Schmidt, an attorney with Kinerk BealSchmidt Dyer and Sethi PC in Tucson, receivedthe College of Law Convocation Award fromthe University of Arizona for his contributionsto the legal profession and the College.

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Ja Nelle Jenkins, an associate with SkousenGulbrandsen & Patience, has been selected toserve as adjunct faculty at Mesa CommunityCollege, teaching business law.

Quarles & Brady partner Mark K. Briggs wasnamed to the board of apparel and marketingfirm Antigua Enterprises, Inc.

Snell & Wilmer attorney Heidi Staudenmaierwas selected as one of the Top 10 Great Womenin Gaming for 2006 by the Great Women ofGaming Conference, sponsored by CasinoEnterprise Management magazine.

Kelly Flood, shareholder with ShughartThomson & Kilroy PC, was elected to theboard of the YWCA of Maricopa County.

Helen R. Davis, a shareholder with theCavanagh Law Firm, was invited to become aFellow of the Foundation of the American BarAssociation.

Hopi Judge Emory Sekaquaptewa will receivethe fourth annual Spirit of the Heard Awardfrom the Heard Museum’s Board of TrusteesAmerican Indian Advisory Committee.

Professor Jonathan Rose, a Willard H.Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar at theSandra Day O’Connor College of Law atArizona State University, presented his paper,“The Law of Maintenance: The Judicial

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Development of the Law,” at the 18th BritishLegal History Conference in Oxford, England.

Shelley Lynn Aboud, Tucson Sidney Marable, Phoenix

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