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know she is still with the D.A.’s office
in L.A. She now has three children,
boys, ages 7 and 8, and a girl, 3 “and I
definitely don’t plan on any more!”
She is juggling work and motherhood
and wants to know, “where did everyone
go?” Under sightings, she wonders
if anyone knows where Alan Feld
went. (me too!) Allison Dolgas Cato
(yeah!) writes from San Diego that in
January, she made partner at Procopio,
Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch, specializing
in business litigation. She and
Chris Cato a re expecting a second
child in November to join big brother
Kyle, now three. Mark Robert s o n
sends news from Malibu that he has
been promoted to Assistant General
Counsel at Hilton Hotels Corporation.
He has been involved in the merger of
Promus Hotel Corp. (2,000 hotels)
with Hilton and subsidiary hotels. In
his new job, he will be involved in legal
efforts in e-commerce, multimedia and
the internet, information technology
and services and franchising. On the
home front, son Dash is five years-old
and daughter Claire is one —“but
wants to be five.” Andy Tebbe (big hi,
Andy!) wants us to know he married
Amy Bettle in September, 1999 and is
living in the Buckhead area of Atlanta.
He reports that he was part of the team
re p resenting Sprint in its pro p o s e d
m e rger with MCI World Com and
helped in setting up their Sprint PCS
“tracking” stock, including completing
an IPO of the stock. Carol Kao
(great hearing from you!) writes from
San Diego. She is now partner at Luce,
Forward, Hamilton & Scripps specializing
in estate planning. She is happily
m a rried and re p o rts that she and
Catherine Dring have coffee together,
and also keeps in touch with Bill Fong.
Under what she misses: “being able to
wear jeans every day, spring break and
summer vacations.” Greg McCambridge
(nice to hear from you!) checks
in from L.A. He is still at the L.A.
County Public Defender’s office and
“still enjoying it.” All right! Nice to
know some of us are still enchanted.
His son, Declan Patrick, was born in
December. Under sightings, he reports
that Ray Bilbeaux and he rejoiced over
the Laker’s victory. I’m quite positive
you two weren’t alone there. And Ray
Bilbeaux airily reports in. He is writing
and publishing at www.scalding-
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coffee.com. Hello Ray! Janice Lavine
wants us to know she is happy in L.A.
The twin girls — remember she was
expecting them in law school?— are
now nine years old and doing great and
she is “expecting another baby any
minute!” (Congratulations, Janice!)
Lori Meloch (yeah!) writes from L.A.
that after almost one year as a federal
probation officer, she is back at the
State Bar working as any attorney with
the client security fund. She wants us
to know she is still enjoying her handsome
husband and wonderful son. And
Lori reports under sightings that Lise
Anderson (photographed in area newspapers,
looking really stunning by the
way, as a legal monitor during the
DNC in L.A.) well, she makes an excellent
aunt to her son. Lise, you’ll recall,
is with the Writers Guild in L.A. Scott
Palmer (Good to hear from you Scott!)
writes from Glendale that he resigned
in January from his partnership at
Keesel, Young & Logan in Long Beach
to form Palmer & Lombardi LLP.
(Congratulations Scott!) Robin Dal
Soglio says it’s the “same old” under
the 9 to 5 scene, but she wants us to
know she had daughter #3 in January.
(Congrats, Robin!) Under class sightings,
Robin reports seeing Karen Yazmajian,
but nothing more. Bill Scarff
announces that he has a new job as
chief litigation counsel for Allergan in
Irvine. Allergan, Bill wants us to know,
is a NYSE-traded pharmaceutical company.
And in characteristic understatement,
he notes, “It’s a good move
for me.” He also muses that “kids are
getting bigger, I am getting older.” Join
the parade, Bill! David Kendig (hello!)
checks in from Orange County. He
writes he is chair of the Orange County
Bar’s Real Estate Section and is living
in Irvine with wife Susan and two kids.
He also warmly (or wryly? I couldn’t
tell) appraises classmate Peter Gutierrez
as, “doing great at LA County
Counsel. He beat me in a CEQA writ
case in May.” Jeff Schneider makes a
big announcement: the whole family
moved from L.A. to Novato, California
(Northern California—Marin County).
He left Paramount Pictures and The
Practice to take a business development
job with an internet company,
Tavolo.com in Nort h e rn Californ i a .
Congratulations, Jeff! Cindy Aronberg,
in Santa Monica, California, wants us
to know she is working as a Deputy
State Controller in L.A. and Sacramento
(how do you do that?) and that
“happily” she has no legal news of note
to report. Under class sightings, she
writes that Julie (Stone) Rossiter just
had baby # 2, Kyra Elena. Michele Milner
writes from L.A. that these days
she is working “more like 9 a.m. – 9
p.m., at home with two kids, doing
yoga and interested in intuitive Feng
Shui.” Noah is 4 years and Calaya is
18 months. Under class sightings, she
reports that she went to the Hollywood
Bowl with Maxine Park and her oney
e a r-old Simon, along with J a n e t
Swerdlow, Adam Wergeles and Melissa
Balaban (“via cell phone”). There they
are again! Also, Michele says she and
Laurie Tr a k t m a n — a partner at
Gilbert & Sackman —hang out alot.
Stephanie Schroeder announces she is
working in the motion picture group at
Paramount Pictures. (congratulations,
Stephanie!) Sam Chuck writes that he
has been named president of his law
f i rm, Liccardo, Rossi, Sturges &
McNeil. This no doubt, because he has
been selected as one of the top litigators
in the Silicon Valley by San Jose
Magazine. On the home front, he and
wife Liza are expecting their first child,
a daughter, and recently moved to a
new house in San Jose (congrats! Sam).
Under class sightings, he writes that
Chris Johnston just took a job with UC
Irvine. Ken Ryken reports in from
Hayward, California that he is still
with the Alameda County DA’s office
in Oakland. He was one of three prosecutors
in the office to receive a grant
position under the federal Vi o l e n c e
Against Women Act (VAWA). His
duties include “vertical pro s e c u t i o n
( f rom charging to trial) of serious
and/or violent felonies against women,
especially felony domestic violence.”
Ken writes he finds the work “very
rewarding and personally satisfying. I
wish the same for all my classmates.”
(I second that wish, Ken!) M a rc i a
M c K i n l e y - P a c e checks in with the
worry that we wouldn’t remember her!
(As if!) She writes she married her
computer-guru husband, Jeff and her
three-year-old son Nathan “definitely
inherited his father’s love of codes.”
Nathan has already taught himself to
read (not law books, Marcia promises)
and use the computer (yikes!) Marcia
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