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In collaboration with the Alameda County Bar Association, Love Thy Lawyer presents an interview with:

LORI K. MIHALICH-LEVIN, JD
https://www.mindfulreturn.com/

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Mindful Return, LLC, Washington, DC

Founder & CEO                                                                                   June 2014 – present 

Founded program to support new parents through the transition back to work after parental leave and to assist employers in retaining new parent talent.

• Collaborate with 85+ employers that offer the 4-week online Mindful Return program to employees as a parental leave benefit.
• Developed and co-created online courses for: new moms; new dads; parents of special needs children, managers of expectant employees, and new parents in the UK, India, and South Africa.
• Author of book, Back to Work After Baby: How to Plan and Navigate a Mindful Return from Maternity Leave.

The GME Group, PLLC, Washington, DC                                              August 2021 - present

Founding Principal

Founded firm to represent hospitals and academic medical centers on issues related to payment for and accreditation of medical residency programs.  Advise clients on Medicare GME funding and strategic planning related to graduate medical education (GME) issues.

Dentons US LLP, Washington, DC

Health Care Partner                                                                             August 2015 – July 2021

Represented teaching hospitals, academic medical centers, community hospitals, and health systems, as well as a broad array of other health care organizations.

Alameda County Bar Association

The Alameda County Bar Association (ACBA) is a professional membership association for lawyers and other members of the legal profession. The ACBA provides access to ongoing legal education; and promotes diversity and civil rights in the Alameda County legal community. Our mission is to promote excellence in the legal profession and to facilitate equal access to justice.

Special thanks to ACBA staff and members: Cailin Dahlin, Saeed Randle, Hadassah Hayashi, Vincent Tong and Anne Beles. (https://www.acbanet.org/)

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JAMES COOK 

665 31st Street, Oakland, CA 94609 • [email protected] • 415-350-3393 

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS 

• ●  Member of the California Bar in good standing 
• ●  Expert plaintiff’s counsel on police excessive force cases pursuant to §42 U.S.C. 1983 
• ●  Extensive experience in all manner of pre-trial litigation, trial preparation, and jury trials 
• ●  Developed innovative processes and pre-litigation procedures for modern digital law practice 
• PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
   Law Offices of John L. Burris December 2014-Present 
• Attorney Oakland, CA 
• ●  Litigated numerous cases in California Federal District Courts pursuant to §42 U.S.C. 1983 
• ●  Litigated employment, real estate, landlord-tenant, and public school cases in CA state courts 
• ●  Provided criminal defense representation for felonies and misdemeanors with emphasis on 
• resisting arrest cases 
• ●  Created processes and templates for pre-trial preparation including witness preparation, trial brief, 
• trial notebook, and jury selection 
• ●  Completed 50-plus hours as an attorney mediator/negotiator in landlord-tenant housing cases 
• ●  Defended personal injury and real-estate boundary cases for State Farm Insurance panel 
• ●  Represented defendants in high-profile media cases including Ghost Ship Fire, San Pablo Fire, 
• Alena Museum Black Artists’ Collective, and BART Sandwich case 
• Law Offices of John L. Burris December 2006-December 2014 
• Law Clerk Oakland, CA 
• ●  Managed the team responsible for client screening, case analysis, and case presentation 
• ●  Created custom processes and templates for tracking new cases through the first phase of the Rule 
• 26 discovery process 
• ●  Created a customized IT data capture system to screen and organize plaintiffs in a class-action 
• suit against Chevron Refinery, Richmond, CA 2012 
• San Francisco Public Defender December 2005-June 2006 
• Law Clerk/Intern San Francisco, CA 
• Assisted Public Defender with research and motion writing for misdemeanor and felony criminal cases. 
• Tenderloin Housing Clinic/AIDS Project December 2005-June 2006 
• Intern San Francisco, CA 
• Assisted staff attorneys with intake, screening, case analysis, and unlawful detainer defense. 

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Hon. Kevin Murphy

· College: Occidental College, graduated 1979

· Law School: USF graduated 1984

· Deputy DA Alameda County 1985—2006

· Appointed to the bench June 2006; brief stint in family law in 2006 and then criminal since then. Judicial experience: executive judge in Hayward 2008—2011, felony trials at RCD 2012—2029, supervising criminal judge 2020—2022. Current assignment felony trials and law and motion

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Samer Habbas

https://www.habbaspilaw.com/attorney/samer-habbas/

Ambitious to strike a path of his own, founder Samer Habbas formed The Law Offices of Samer Habbas in 2006, a full service personal injury law firm, on the mantra that the client always comes first; “Our client’s satisfaction is our success,” he says. 

Samer and his team work on a variety of personal injury cases from car accidents, medical malpractice, slip and falls, dog bites, elder abuse and more. His office is well known among insurance carriers for not backing down and always fighting to get his clients the best settlement possible. 

Samer has earned several awards that reflect his hard work in the field. Due to his aggressive approach, he has resolved numerous cases for seven figures. He recently secured an $11,000,000.00 settlement for a truck accident that left his client with catastrophic injuries. In addition, Samer secured a settlement for $3,450,000.00 for a motorcyclist struck by a motorist. 

Outside the office, Samer is a contributing
 and involved member of the community. He
 is a regular supporter of several non-profit organizations such as the Children’s Hospital of Orange County and Best Buddies.  

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James Rodriguez

Born in Los Angeles – grew up between Sacramento suburbs and LA

UCLA undergrad - 1989 – started with an NROTC scholarship, dropped that, then studied film, then ended with History major, Studied at University of Guadalajara for a summer

In college worked at the American Film Institute, CARECEN - Central American Refugee Center and fry cook

After graduation worked for two years as a teachers assistant with learning handicapped students, summers with severely disabled students (now called Resource Program)

Applied to the four UC law schools after that – accepted at Boalt (Berkeley Law now of course)

Was granted a summer fellowship to work at MALDEF – Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund – during 1L summer

Worked at the Berkeley Community Law Center during school,  helping mothers recently paroled from prison who had passed aids to their children obtain SSI

Interned with David Coleman at Contra costa defender’s during school

2L summer worked at civil law firm in Sacramento

After graduation received fellowship to work at the California Appellate Project in San Francisco, working with team on death penalty appeals 

Then worked two years in San Diego Public Defender’s office

Moved back to San Francisco, worked two years in the Office of Citizen Complaints  - SF police oversight agency  (now defunct, the responsibilities of the OCC was split into two separate agencies) - with Mary Dunlap

Found my way to Alameda defender’s in 2000, been there ever since.

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LAURA S. ROBINSON

Law Office of Laura Robinson

6114 LaSalle Avenue #216

Oakland, CA  94611-2802

Tel (510) 384-8563

Fax (510) 439-5314

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LauraRobinsonLaw.com

Law Office of Laura Robinson, Oakland, CA

January 2004 – Present

Handle retained and court appointed criminal cases of any magnitude.

Currently receives court appointed criminal cases for indigent defendants in Alameda County.

Twice selected for the federal criminal panel to receive conflict cases.

Argued in the Ninth Circuit after the Government appealed one of my federal victories.

Filed a writ in the Supreme Court for the United States that was conferenced by the justices.

Wrote and argued appeals as a panel attorney for the First District Appellate Project.

Deputy Public Defender, Contra Costa County Public Defender

October 1988 – January 2004

      Trial attorney in at least 75 jury trials, mostly felonies.  

Handled numerous serious, violent and high profile cases, including murder, kidnapping and rape.

      Solely responsible for criminal cases from arraignment through jury trial.

      Lectured at in-house training sessions on various criminal defense topics.

      Rose to the top level non-management position, public defender IV.

      Union Shop Steward, 1998-2000.

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TOM SILVA - EDEN REALTY

P. O. Box 126
San Lorenzo, CA 94580
(510) 537-8181 Fax: (510) 537-8338
RESUME OF THOMAS R. SILVA, CPM Updated December, 2022
Current Licenses and Designations
IssueDate
LicenseNumber California Real Estate Broker 1986
#809033 Certified Property Manager
1987
#11287 California General Contractor
1990 B716078
Current Employment
1984 ot date - Owner/Broker EDEN REALTY, San Lorenzo, CA
Eden Realty is a full service real estate firm specializing in the acquisition, development, rehabilitation, and ongoing management of residential and commercial income property in Southern Alameda County. We currently operate six properties with a full time staff o f ten professionals.
1989 to date - Owner EDEN REHAB CORP., San Lorenzo, CA
Eden Rehab is a licensed, general contracting firm (B598750), which specializes ni the new construction and rehabilitation ofmulti-family residential and commercial structures
in Southern Alameda County. Previous Employment

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In collaboration with the Alameda County Bar Association, Love Thy Lawyer presents an interview with:  Cynthia Chandler 

Alameda County Bar Association

The Alameda County Bar Association (ACBA) is a professional membership association for lawyers and other members of the legal profession. The ACBA provides access to ongoing legal education; and promotes diversity and civil rights in the Alameda County legal community. Our mission is to promote excellence in the legal profession and to facilitate equal access to justice.

Senior  Alameda County Assistant District Attorney Cynthia Chandler has an unusual background for a prosecutor.  And we can expect her approach to criminal prosecution to be radically different than the traditional view of the job.
 
 Cynthia Chandler is a change agent, founder, business coach, and attorney. Her innovations include launching the first organization advancing the rights of HIV+ women in prison, creating the compassionate release process allowing for the release from prison of terminally ill people, co-founding the Eviction Defense Center in Oakland, CA, and co-founding Critical Resistance and Justice Now, early prison abolitionist organizations influencing the Black Lives Matter network. Cynthia has spent the last 20+ years campaigning to end and win reparations for coerced sterilization of people in prison, culminating in legislative victory in 2020 making California the 3rd state to provide reparations for survivors of historic State eugenics programs and the 1st state to provide reparations to people coercively sterilized in State prisons. Her work to end sterilization abuse is featured in the Emmy Award winning and Peabody nominated documentary Belly of the Beast. Cynthia currently is working to democratize the rule of law as Director of BALI | Bay Area Legal Incubator, where she supports diverse attorneys in building successful law practices. Cynthia has received numerous prestigious honors for her contributions to the legal profession, including the Auburn Lives of Commitment Award Celebrating Women of Moral Courage, ABA Pro Bono Publico Award, the California Women Lawyers Fay Stender Award, and the inaugural Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World Award. Cynthia earned a JD from Harvard Law School and a M.Phil. in criminology from University of Cambridge.
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The Law Office of Shay Aaron Gilmore, Principal

https://www.shaygilmorelaw.com/

San Francisco, CA; January 2018 – present 

Law Firm Client Work
o Outside General Counsel Services: Provide general counsel services to cannabis cultivators, manufacturers, distributors and retailers, and ancillary businesses in the cannabis industry, including advice and counsel regarding entity formation and governance, commercial cannabis licensing and permitting, state and local regulatory compliance, commercial contracts and other business law.
o Commercial Contracts: Support cannabis clients through all phases of negotiation, formation, and execution of commercial contracts at each point of the commercial cannabis supply chain, including distribution agreements, employment contracts, cannabis processing and cultivation contracts, lease agreements, and royalty-based intellectual property licensing contracts.
o Corporate Transactions & Governance: Organize and form businesses for cannabis operators across the supply chain; advise operator owners and senior executives on corporate governance; manage and direct clients’ merger and acquisition activity, including reorganizations; draft employee stock option plans, profits interests agreements, and shareholder agreements; develop policies and procedures.
o Regulatory Compliance: Advise cannabis operators at all points along the supply chain regarding commercial compliance under California’s Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) and that law’s implementing regulations; develop procedures for cannabis operators to navigate regulatory changes; represent cannabis operators in front of regulatory agencies; perform compliance audits and implement recommended practices.
o Commercial Licensing & Permitting: Advise cannabis operators through each stage of obtaining local and state authorization for conducting commercial cannabis activity, from farmers in Humboldt County to forward-concept cannabis lounges in West Hollywood; prepare regulatory responses relating to commercial cannabis licensing and permitting.

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Pam Ortiz
https://pamelaortizlaw.com/

B.S. Sac State Criminal Justice

J.D. Golden Gate University

Interned at US Attorney, SF DA and Marin PD during law school

First job:  Deputy DA in Contra Costa County

Been practicing exclusively criminal defense and been on CAAP panel since 2002

As a Bay Area native, Pamela is committed to fighting for her clients. She has been in private practice specializing in criminal defense exclusively since 2002. She handles all types of felonies and misdemeanors in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.

Pamela has a BS in Criminal Justice from CSU, Sacramento (1987 graduating with honors). She then attended law school at Golden Gate University in San Francisco during which she interned with the Marin County Public Defender’s Office, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office and the United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District of California. Upon her graduation in 1991, she went to work as a deputy district attorney in Contra Costa County for several years.

After working for a number of years in a law firm as a civil litigator and a large company focusing on employment law issues, she returned to the practice of criminal law as a private criminal defense attorney. In addition to her private practice, she serves as a court appointed attorney in Alameda County through the Alameda County Bar Association and handles adult serious felony matters.

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