Governor Names Los Angeles Attorney Joseph Miller To Chair Workers' Compensation Appeals Board Metropolitan News-Enterprise, 5/26/05
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday named Los Angeles attorney Joseph M. Miller chairman of the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board.
Miller, 64, has been a sole practitioner representing both employers and applicants since 2003. He previously spent 23 years at Seyfarth Shaw's Los Angeles office, where he created and managed the office's workers' compensation practice.
He also spent six years as an associate at George, Miller and Bush and six years at Warren, Adell and Miller, where he represented labor unions and employees in workers' compensation litigation, personal injury and employment issues. He served as chair of the State Bar Workers' Compensation Law Advisory Commission and was a member of the State Bar Board of Legal Specialization.
Miller has been a certified workers' compensation law specialist since 1973. He is a graduate of Harvard University and Boalt Hall School of Law, and hold a master of laws degree from New York University.
He lectures frequently on workers' compensation and employment law issues.
The appointment is effective immediately, but it was unclear when Miller would actually be sworn in. Miller referred a request for comment to the Governor's Office, where a spokesman said he was uncertain when the new appointee would begin work. ...
TIAA-CREF Names John C. Wilcox Senior VP and Head of Corporate Governance PR Newswire, 5/12/05
TIAA-CREF, the financial services organization and leading provider of retirement savings in the academic, research, medical, and cultural fields, today announced that John C. Wilcox has been named Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Governance, effective immediately. ...
The TIAA-CREF corporate governance team Wilcox will lead includes Linda Scott Director, Corporate Governance and Hye-Won Choi, Director, Corporate Governance and Senior Counsel.
Ms. Scott, who joined TIAA-CREF in 2003, will continue to focus on domestic corporate governance issues as well as supervise the company's proxy voting. Before joining TIAA-CREF, Ms. Scott served as Director of Investor Affairs for the New York State Common Retirement Fund in the Office of the New York State Comptroller. She holds a B.A. from Trinity College and an M.A. from Yale University.
Ms. Choi, who joined the company in 1994, has been promoted to an expanded role in which she will focus on international corporate governance issues as well continuing to serve as the legal advisor to the Corporate Governance area. Prior to joining TIAA-CREF, Ms. Choi was a securities lawyer at the law firms Rubin Baum Levin Constant & Friedman and Reid & Priest. She holds a B.A. from Harvard College and J.D. from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. ...
A 'Carny Kid' Tells Students How He Beat the Odds Los Angeles Times, 5/1/05
They pay attention when he strolls onto the campus of the high school in Los Angeles -- a man sporting white hair and beard and a jolly attitude.
They pay attention when he strides into a Los Angeles courtroom too, or onto a nightclub stage—a man wearing a suit, carrying a briefcase and toting a five-pound volume of the California Penal Code.
People pay attention to every incarnation of Kenny Kahn '65: to the 63-year-old lawyer, to the comedian, to the teacher. He's a stand-up kind of guy in a couple of senses of the word, a champion of unpopular causes and of juvenile delinquents because he used to be one.
The scrappy underdog isn't a role he chose; it's one he was born into. He was the only Jewish teenager in an Eastside housing project. He was stricken with polio. He states that his parents were heroin addicts. The trauma of his young life could have been lifted from the pages of a Charles Dickens novel, but he tells it himself, with some darkly comic moments, in his first and recently published book, "The Carny Kid: Survival of a Young Thief."
He gets paid for lawyering, he gets paid a lot less for comedy, and he gets paid nothing at all for teaching former gangbangers and other teenagers how to stay out of the criminal justice system at Save Our Future charter school south of downtown Los Angeles. He recognizes himself in those hostile kids who sit up straight and listen when he tells them how he got himself out of the projects and into a penthouse.
"I had the perfect negative role models," Kahn said. "And I didn't want to follow in their footsteps."
Kahn was born in Los Angeles in 1941. He spent his early childhood on the midway at Ocean Park Pier, one of the many names it bore, an amusement zone on a pier at the end of Ocean Park Boulevard in Santa Monica. ...
