Steven E. Bochner ’81 was appointed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Advisory Committee on Smaller Public Companies. Bochner, a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, California, and an adjunct lecturer at Boalt, will evaluate the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on small companies. Appointed by SEC Chairman William H. Donaldson, Bochner is the only lawyer from the West Coast serving on the committee. Read more about his appointment.