Harry Chamberlain was awarded a Bench Bar Coalition Leadership Award at the 2010 State Bar Conference.

Jason Goldstein was elected Vice-President of the Parkview Maintenance Association.

Pamela Kohlman Webster was selected to the 2010 Irish Legal 100, leading figures in law across the U.S.

Buchalter Nemer ranked a best law firm by U.S. News and World Report

Nicole Sahagen has been elected to serve as General Counsel on the 2011 Board of Directors for Commercial Real Estate Women-Los Angeles (CREW-LA).

Holly Fujie has been appointed 2010-2011 Vice President of the Chancery Club.

Karen Stevenson has been appointed to the Board of Directors for the Arts and Sciences Foundation for the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Holly Fujie has been nominated for the Asian Heritage Award in Legal Affairs, to be presented in July 2010 in San Diego, CA.

Larry Steinberg has been elected president of the Los Angeles Copyright Society for a one-year term beginning July 1, 2010.

Holly Fujie became President of the Boalt Hall Alumni Association for 2010-2011.

Rich Walton has been elected president of a local chapter of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Karen Stevenson has been appointed as a Trustee to the Rhodes Scholar program for Oxford University in England.

The State Bar of Arizona Volunteer Lawyers Program honored Buchalter Nemer attorney Leslie Ann Haacke with its "For the Love of Justice" Award.

Shawn Christianson was honored at a reception on March 5, 2010 as the Town of Hillsborough's Citizen of the Year.

Lori Liu has been appointed as Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce.

Nicole Sahagen has been appointed to the "Women at the Top" committee of the Los Angeles chapter of Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW).

Matthew Kavanaugh has been appointed Chair of the American Bar Association Task Force preparing a Model IP Security Agreement.

Thomas Gaynor has been appointed to a four-year term on the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California.

Major Changes Are Coming to Minors' Cases
New statewide rules on a complex area of the law known as Minors' Compromises go into effect in January 2010. Buchalter attorney Harry Chamberlain was involved in the two years of negotiations among the plaintiffs' bar, defense counsel and judges for the Judicial Council of California. To view the new rules, click here. For an article announcing the rule change, click here.