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L.A. area lawyer and former Associate Justice among newly appointed commissioners

By Richard Binder

Mayor Villaraigosa has announced the appointment of 11 new commissioners.  Included in the appointments are Armand Arabian, the former Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court and superior Court judge, and lawyer Yolanda Orozco.

Justice Armand Arabian received his J.D from Boston University in 1961, beginning his distinguished legal career. He has spent the last thirteen years as an attorney for Alternative Dispute Resolution Services, Inc. conducting arbitration and mediation in complex legal cases. Arabian is nationally recognized for his work reforming rape laws and credited for creating the sexual assault counselor-victim privilege adopted into the Evidence Code of California and eighteen other states.

Yolando Orozco is currently a partner with the Jones Day law firm and has over 25 years of experience litigating complex business and commercial litigation matters, with an emphasis on federal court practice involving a diversity of legal issues. She is a co-chair of the Los Angeles Office's Diversity Committee. Throughout her career, Orozco has significant experience in representing high-profile clients, most recently the Los Angeles Unified School District in a massive school construction dispute. Orozco received her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1979. She received her B.A. from the University of California, San Diego in 1976.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on August 31, 2009 (boomark / email).