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California Lawyer Selects Boalt Alumni as 2003 Attorneys of the Year
Five Boalt Hall alumni have been awarded 2003 California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year (CLAY) Awards. The awards honor lawyers who have substantially influenced public policy, brought about a significant development in their field of practice or in law-firm management, or achieved a notable victory for a client or for the public in a difficult, challenging manner.
Michael Page '91 of Keker & Van Nest in San Francisco received a CLAY award in the area of intellectual property for successfully defending file-sharing network companies Streamcast Networks and Grokster in a federal copyright infringement lawsuit. Franklin Gowdy '70 and Stephen Finn '72, partners at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in San Francisco, were both honored in the area of law practice management for successfully bringing in 250 partners, associates and staff immediately following the collapse of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. Maria Blanco '84, former national senior counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Eva Paterson '75, director of Equal Justice Society in San Francisco , were given CLAY awards in the field of civil rights. The two lawyers led a coalition of attorneys and community advocates to defeat Proposition 54, which would have prevented local, county and state government agencies from collecting information about a citizen's race or ethnicity.
For more information, contact Erin Campbell at 510-643-8010 or ecampbell@law.berkeley.edu .
(3/16/04)
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