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Los Angeles County Bar Association
First Annual Small & Solo Conference Website |
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| Stephen Fairley, M.A., M.A., RCC, CEO |
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CEO of The Rainmaker Institute |
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Law Firm Marketing Expert |
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Conference Host and Organizer |
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| (888) 588-5891 |
| www.TheRainmakerInstitute.com |
| Stephen@TheRainmakerInstitute.com |
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Stephen Fairley is a nationally recognized law firm marketing expert and has helped more
than 6,000 attorneys from hundreds of law firms across the country to discover the secrets of generating more referrals and filling their practice. |
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His academic training is as a Clinical Psychologist and he practiced as a therapist for several
years in Virginia and Illinois. After leaving the field of clinical psychology Stephen founded and
ran two technology companies, one in the restaurant industry and another in the health sciences
field prior to launching Today's Leadership Coaching, a Chicago-based professional business coaching and consulting firm. |
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| In 2004, Stephen was named "America's Top Marketing Coach" by CoachVille, the world’s largest professional coaching association and given their top industry award. He is a Registered Corporate Coach (RCC) through the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches. |
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He has appeared in the American Bar Association Journal, Entrepreneur, Inc., Fortune Small Business, Harvard Management Update, Business Advisor, the Chicago Tribune, Crain’s Chicago Business, and on the front covers of AdvantEdge and Choice magazines. |
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| Stephen is a member of the prestigious National Speaker’s Association and his Rainmaker seminars have been sponsored by more than 20 of the largest state and local bar associations in the country. |
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| Stephen is the CEO of The Rainmaker Institute, the nation’s largest law firm marketing company specializing in small law firms. He helps partners at small and solo law firms find new clients fast and generate more and better referrals. |
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| On a personal note, Stephen has traveled to more than 25 countries, he loves to fish, has been on 9 cruises in the last 3 years, is an active real estate investor, is married to Ruth and lives in Phoenix. |
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| For more information or to purchase Stephen's products, click here. |
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| John Bisnar JD |
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Managing Partner |
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Bisnar Chase |
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| (800) 598-6998 |
| www.bestattorney.com |
| jbisnar@bestattorney.com |
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John Bisnar JD is the founder of the Bisnar|Chase law firm, one of the leading personal injury law firms in southern California. He is the visionary of the firm and the creator of the firm's mission statement, "To provide superior client representation in a professional and ethical manner, while experiencing high job satisfaction, earning a high standard of living and having fun; and to make our world a safer place for us all." The firm's mission statement is it's guiding principal. It is the yard stick against which all actions and decisions are measured. Every Bisnar|Chase employee can recent the mission statement, tell you what it means and how the firm lives up to it. |
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| Mr. Bisnar is the businessman of the firm. He handles the business affairs, marketing, and client |
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care programs. Ask any of the Bisnar|Chase employees and they will tell you he is their professional growth coach and their personal mentor. He works with every employee to improve their professional performance and encourage their personal growth. John believes that assisting the firm's employees in reaching their personal goals is essential to their professional performance in furtherance of the firm's mission. |
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When asked about the firm's guiding principals, Mr. Bisnar will point out, "The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success" by Deepak Chopra as the bible by which the firm is run. One of his philosophies is "Do the right thing by the client and profits will follow." Another is "Our employees will treat our clients no better than we treat our employees." |
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| Client care programs and "improving the client experience" are pet projects of Mr. Bisnar. They are regular subjects of the training seminars he leads for the firm's staff. He also teaches team work, listening skills and conducts negotiating workshops for the firm's staff. |
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John is a native of Southern California. He served active duty in the US Army in the Pacific and South East Asia from 1968 to 1970. In 1974 he graduated from California State University, Long Beach, cum laude with a B.S. Degree in Finance/Investments. John was on the Dean's List every semester. In 1978 John received his J.D. degree from Pepperdine University School of Law. John was admitted to the California State Bar in July 1978. Not long after he graduated from Pepperdine University College of Trial Advocacy. |
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John began Judge Pro-Tem work in the California State Courts in 1984. He won his first Million Dollar case in 1986. In 1996 he was named a "Community Hero" by The United Way, Orange County, California and in that same year was an Olympic Torch carrier transporting the Olympic flame through Orange County on foot. Check out the Olympic Torch proudly displayed in his office. |
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| Bob Brennan, Esq., |
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Partner |
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Brennan Wiener & Associates |
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| (818) 249-5291 |
| www.BrennanLaw.com |
| RBrennan@BrennanLaw.com |
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Bob Brennan, Esq., the leader of Brennan, Wiener & Associates, has practiced law since 1987. He is a veteran of over 50 civil jury trials, with an excellent winning percentage. In addition to numerous other victories, for several years he held the largest single lemon law verdict in the State of California and one of the largest California verdicts under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act. He is a 1981 graduate of Princeton University and a 1987 graduate of U.C. Davis School of Law. He is admitted to practice in California and in most of the federal courts located in California. His uncle, United States Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., deceased, sponsored his admission to the bar of the United States Supreme Court in 1991 |
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Bob Brennan (Member) Admitted to bar, 1987, California; 1988, U.S. District Court, Central and Southern Districts of California; 1989, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California; 1992, U.S. Supreme Court; 1997, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Education: Princeton University (B.A., 1981); University of California-Davis, School of Law (J.D., 1987). National Moot Court Team, University of California-Davis School of Law.
Member: Burbank, Glendale and Los Angeles County Bar Associations; State Bar of California; Consumer Attorneys of California and Los Angeles; National Association of Consumer Advocates. He served as a trustee of the Glendale Bar Association and is the California State Coordinator for the National Association of Consumer Advocates.
Practice Areas: Lemon Law; Car Dealer Fraud; Consumer Fraud; Wrongful Credit Damage; Identity Theft; Wrongful and Abusive Debt Collection Cases and Consumer Protection Class Actions.
Other Information: Bob Brennan and his firm have received an “AV” rating from the prestigious Martindale-Hubbell Group in 2003. An “AV” rating means that Mr. Brennan and his firm are preeminent in both legal skill and legal ethics, according to his piers and judges before whom he practices. Mr. Brennan has been a Southern California Super Lawyer for the last three years in a row, an honor reserved for the top 5% of practicing attorneys in a geographical area as voted upon by judges, co-counsel and opposing counsel.
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| Derrick Coleman, JD |
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Partner at Coleman Frost |
| (310) 576-7312 |
| www.colemanfrost.com |
| derrick@colemanfrost.com |
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Derrick Coleman's practice is focused on litigating complex commercial and other disputes in the state and federal courts. Derrick has litigated cases in the consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-trust, real estate, securities, health care, employment, and toxic tort fields in both individual lawsuits and arbitration proceedings and in nationwide class actions and other sophisticated multi-plaintiff disputes. He has represented a wide variety of clients over the years, including several of the top ten largest publicly-traded corporations in the world, a number of other Fortune 100 companies, medium-size and small businesses, and governmental and quasi-governmental entities. He has represented some of the largest business organizations in some of the most widely-publicized litigation matters in the nation’s history, including cases with billions of dollars at stake. |
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Before forming Coleman Frost in 2004, Derrick practiced at O'Melveny & Myers LLP for seven years. At O'Melveny, Derrick's experience included serving as the primary liaison counsel for Ford Motor Company in the highly-publicized statewide coordination proceedings, In re Bridgestone/Firestone, featuring hundreds of wrongful death and personal injury claims nationwide. Derrick started his practice at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel LLP in 1993 where he was responsible for a variety of tort, construction defect and labor and employment cases. |
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Derrick has written and lectured on class action-related topics, including lecturing before the Association of Insurance Compliance Professionals (“Class Action Litigation and its Impact Upon Insurers and Regulators”). |
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| Derrick earned his J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Southern California in 1993 after graduating from Duke University in 1990 with a dual-major B.S. in physics and a B.A. in political science. |
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| Carolyn Elefante, JD |
| (202) 297-6100 |
| www.myshingle.com |
| carolyn.elefant@gmail.com |
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Carolyn Elefant is principal attorney with the Law Offices of Carolyn Elefant in Washington D.C., specializing in energy regulatory and emerging renewables, civil rights litigation and appeals. Along with a colleague, Carolyn founded the Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition in 2005 which has since grown to 40 members both within the U.S. and in Europe. In 2002, Carolyn joined the first wave of lawyer-bloggers with MyShingle.com, a site for solo and small firm practitioners. Realizing a need for an up to date source of information on starting a law firm in the 21st century, Carolyn authored the book, Solo by Choice: How to Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be, released in January 2008. The acclaimed book discusses how to leverage modern trends like outsourcing, alternative billing, social networking and technology to start and run a cutting edge law practice. |
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Carolyn consults on developing successful niche practices, creating work-life balance and will soon offer hands on workshops on networking skills and online tools for marketing a law practice. Carolyn lives in Bethesda Maryland with her husband, Bruce Israel and their two daughters.
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| Ruth Klein, MS |
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Strategic Marketing Expert |
| (310) 741-1583 |
| www.ruthklein.com |
| rklein@ruthklein.com |
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Ruth Klein is a branding, marketing, publicity and time managmenet consultant to law firms and business professionals ranging from solo entrepreneurs to the Fortune 500. As an award-winning business owner with a master's degree in clinical psychology, Klein brings her unique, results-driven insights, expertise and practical solutions to her clients. |
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| Raymond Chip Lambert |
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CEO of Network2Networth, LLC |
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Business Development Expert |
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| (602) 635-4541 |
| www.network2networth.com |
| chip@network2networth.com |
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Raymond Chip Lambert is a Business Development expert who works exclusively with seasoned professionals to leverage their existing relationships and catapult them into the business they truly want. |
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Chip began his career as an analyst and trader for a European Hedge Fund building relationships in the Latin American and European Markets resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in transactions. |
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A professional trainer and business coach since 2000, Chip regularly consults professional firms on matters of melding time tested Business Development strategies with online Social Media |
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strategy and unlocking the value of their existing network connections. |
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He has presented on matters of Business and Network Development to The Arizona Bar Association Solo and Small Practitioner Forum, The Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, the Phoenix Suns, and various trade and professional associations. |
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A native of Phoenix, Arizona, he admits that he “loves his work a little too much”, but he does find time to travel, sail, and spend quality time with those closest to him. |
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| Alexis Martin Neely, Esq |
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Founder of Family Wealth Planning Institute |
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Estate Planning Attorney |
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| (866) 999-3974 |
| www.LawBusinessSecrets.com |
| Alexis@LawBusinessSecrets.com |
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Alexis Martin Neely started off her career at one of the most prestigious firms in Los Angeles only to conclude that she had made a horrible mistake by becoming a lawyer. Luckily, she came across a business coach who helped her see that there was a better way. As a third year associate, Alexis left behind the big paycheck and window office to open her own boutique law practice in Redondo Beach, CA. |
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After a stressful start in which Alexis feared her family was going to end up homeless if she didn’t figure out how to be a business owner fast, Alexis went on to gross $1,000,000 in her third year and did it again in year 4 working only 2 days/week in her office where she doesn’t even have a desk anymore. |
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Alexis used her free time in year 4 to follow her dream and found the Family Wealth Planning Institute, through which she is revolutionizing the world of legal planning for families and changing the way Americans think about lawyers. |
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After experiencing the devastation of documents only legal work and the impact of a failed estate plan in her own family and the business model that makes that the way it has to be, Alexis knew she had to teach lawyers and families how to plan in a whole new way. |
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| Alexis is the Better TV family financial and legal expert, author of the book “Wear Clean Underwear: A Fast, Fun, Friendly – and Essential Guide – to Legal Planning for Busy parents” and has been named to the Worth magazine top 100 lawyer list 2 years in a row. Alexis is also a regular blogger at http://alexismartinneely.wordpress.com. |
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| Annaluisa Padilla Esq. |
| www.padilla-esq.com |
| annaluisap@padilla-esq.com |
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Ms. Padilla is a native of Guatemala who immigrated to the United States in 1983. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as an undergraduate student. In 1997 she obtained her Juris Doctor J.D. from Whittier Law School. She was admitted to the California State Bar that same year. Ms. Padilla established her firm as a sole practitioner in 2002 practicing exclusively in the areas of Immigration and Nationality Law and Family Law. She has volunteered with the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), the Domestic Violence Project, the HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance, and the Immigration Legal Assistance Project. She is fluent in Spanish, conversational in German and Portuguese. |
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Ms. Padilla has served as Faculty for “Paralegal Studies – Family Law”, West Los Angeles Community College. She has participated in presentations for local businesses including the “Rise N Shine” Series, Downey Chamber of Commerce, “Immigration Reform and Small Businesses”. In addition, she has been a Featured Speaker at Public Conferences on Immigration, including "Visas y Permisos de Trabajo para Profesionales" - Guatemala City, Guatemala, November 4, 2004, and the 16th Annual AILA California Chapters Conference, "The Essentials of Immigration Law for Paralegals, Legal Assistants, and Law Office Staff" - "Common Family-Based Immigration Headaches and Solutions", San Diego, CA, November 6, 2003. |
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Ms. Padilla is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). She is currently serving a third term as a Trustee for the Board of Trustees of the Mexican American Bar Association (MABA); she has served as the Newsletter Editor, First and Second Vice Chair of the Immigration Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and she is currently serving as the Chair of the Section. |
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| David Walsh |
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CEO, Faces Media |
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| (617) 455-1361 |
| www.FacesMedia.com |
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David Walsh is a co-founder and the CEO of Faces Media, a leading provider of web video production and marketing solutions for the legal industry. Based out of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Faces Media has operations in 15 major U.S. cities and a portfolio of over 500 attorney videos.
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Prior to Faces Media, David was as a co-founder of DirectoryM, a private-label online directory company that partners with major media companies in the U.S. and the U.K. His role as Vice President of Marketing included the design of DirectoryM’s pioneering interactive directory solution, implementation and oversight of directory advertising, and the negotiation of partnerships with numerous media companies including The Times of London, The Financial Times, Inc. Magazine and Fast Company magazine.
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Before DirectoryM, David worked as head of marketing and interface design for RFPmarket, a business-to-business e-marketplace founded in the late 1990s. |
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He is a graduate of Emory University (B.A. in economics). |
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| Kevin O’Keefe, JD |
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CEO, LexBlog |
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| (206) 340-8204
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| www.lexblog.com |
| kevin@lexblog.com |
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Kevin O’Keefe is president and founder of LexBlog, the leading provider of professional marketing blogs to the legal profession (www.lexblog.com). Kevin was a trial lawyer for 17 years, successfully marketing his law firm via the Internet in such a positive way that USA Today said “If he isn`t careful, he may wind up giving lawyers a good name.”
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He founded Prairielaw.com, the leading online law community for consumers and small businesspeople, later acquired by LexisNexis and now incorporated into Martindale-Hubbell’s lawyers.com. Kevin then served as a VP of Business Development of LexisNexis` Martindale-Hubbell. |
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As an attorney, he was a sustaining member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and a board member of his state`s trial lawyers association.
Kevin’s blog, Real Lawyers Have Blogs (kevin.lexblog.com), is the leading source of information on the use of Blogs and RSS for the marketing of law firms. |
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| David Lee Rice, Esq. |
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Partner with Carico Rice Toomey, LLP |
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| (310) 545-0010 |
| www.CRTlawfirm.com |
| drice@crtlawfirm.com |
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Mr. Rice has been in private practice since November of 1979 as a tax professional. Prior to law school, Mr. Rice worked for the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand.
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Mr. Rice is a partner in the law firm of Carico Rice Toomey, LLP. He is a well-recognized attorney in the area of taxation and was named as one of Los Angeles’s SuperLawyers for 2006 in the Los Angeles Magazine. |
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Mr. Rice is a Certified Specialist in Taxation with the State Bar of California and is currently a member of the Tax Section of the Legal Specialization Advisory Commission to the State Bar of California. This is the Commission that is responsible for overseeing the Certification Process for attorneys becoming a Certified Specialist in Taxation.
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| Ralph G. Martinez, Esq. |
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Principal |
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Martinez Law Group, Inc. |
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| (949) 450-0123 |
| www.martinezlawoffice.com |
| ralph@martinezlawoffice.com |
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Ralph G. Martinez is the founding principal of Martinez Law Group, Inc., a business and real estate law firm in Laguna Hills, California. As transactional and trial attorneys, Martinez Law Group serves small businesses and serial entrepreneurs in the real estate, financial services and high tech industries.
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Before forming Martinez Law Group in 1996, Ralph was a principal and trial attorney for the prestigious trial law firm of Hunt, Colaw & Adams, Inc. In 1992 he won a $1.7 million jury verdict for a business entrepreneur. His personal network spans every populated continent of the globe. |
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A native of Southern California, Ralph Martinez earned a B.A. in Communication and Business
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| Administration in 1975 from Azusa Pacific University. His J.D. was awarded by California Western School of Law in 1978 where Ralph served as Executive Editor of the CALIFORNIA WESTERN INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL. |
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Ralph Martinez taught speech communication as an adjunct professor at the community college level. He has served on several boards of directors, including the Orange County Trial Lawyer’s Association and a $52 million credit union. Currently Ralph serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of an international nonprofit organization.. |
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Ralph lives in San Juan Capistrano with his wife of 35 years, Laurie. |
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| Kevin L. Von Tungeln |
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Thompson Von Tungeln, A P.C. |
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| (661) 945-5868 |
| www.TVTtrustlaw.com |
| kvontungeln@TVTtrustlaw.com |
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Mr. Von Tungeln has more than seventeen years of legal experience. He received his B.S. Electrical Engineering degree from New Mexico State University (1987) and his J.D. degree from the University of New Mexico (1990) where he was a member of the New Mexico Law Review. He is admitted to practice law in California, the District of Columbia, in the U.S. District Courts for the Central and Eastern Districts of California and before the U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit. Mr. Von Tungeln is a Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law, by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. He is a member of the Antelope Valley Bar Association (Board of Directors, 1997-2002; President, 2001.); the State Bar of California (Member of Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law Section); and the District of Columbia Bar, National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Christian Legal Society, California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, and the Lancaster West Rotary.
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The Top Mistakes in Estate Planning
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| Presenter: Kevin Von Tungeln, Esq. |
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Most attorneys don’t practice estate planning, but attorneys who work with individual clients (like family lawyers, immigration attorneys, personal injury attorneys, small business lawyers, etc) often have questions about how their legal work affects their estate planning needs. |
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- An overview of the top mistakes attorneys make in estate planning
- Recent rulings and how they affect your law practice
- How to address and avoid these common pitfalls for success
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