2020 honor roll
HONOR ROLL Dave Carothers (JD 1985) and Brent Giddens (JD 1987), both partners at Carothers DiSante & Freudenberger LLP, were named 2020 Southern California Super Lawyers by Super Lawyers Magazine.
Matt Cave (JD 2011) co-founded Kibler Fowler & Cave LLP, a boutique law firm focused on litigation for entertainment, business, real estate and financial services.
David Clark (JD 2010) was elected as partner in the Orange County office of Haynes and Boone LLP. Clark is a trial attorney who helps clients solve complex business disputes, with a focus on licensing disputes and other business litigation, along with areas such as patent litigation and trade secrets.
Monisha Coehlo (JD 2009) joined AlvaradoSmith as a partner in their Los Angeles office. Her practice focuses on business and commercial litigation, real estate litigation and cross-border U.S.-India legal matters. Previously, she served as the head of International Practice–India for ADLI Law Group.
Mark Foster (JD 1998) was elected as partner in the Orange County office of Snell & Wilmer LLP. Foster’s practice is concentrated on representing institutional owners, operators and developers, as well as financial institutions and investors.
Steffi Hafen (JD 2010), a partner at Snell & Wilmer LLP, will co-lead the firm’s new San Diego office. Hafen is certified in estate planning, trust and probate law by the California Board of Legal Specialization. Her practice is concentrated in tax, trust, and estate matters with an emphasis in estate planning, business succession planning, charitable planning, and trust and probate administration and litigation, as well as state and local taxation.
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Maria Hall (JD 2003) will be recognized by the National Lawyers Guild of Los Angeles (NLG-LA) at its awards event. As an executive board member of the guild, she is a solo practice lawyer whose work focuses on civil rights, environmental justice and tenants’ rights, as well as pro bono activist legal defense. She has been active with many local organizations, serving as a trustee of the Mexican American Bar Foundation, co-president of NLG-LA, and attorney development director of the LA Incubator Consortium, which supports new solo attorneys committed to closing the access-to-justice gap.
Christine Harding Hart (JD 2011) was elected a partner at Hand Arendall Harrison Sale LLC. Hart’s practice focuses on civil litigation with an emphasis on higher education and constitutional law matters.
Nathan Hardy (JD 2015) co-authored an opinion piece published in the Los Angeles Times, titled “Trump has packed the courts with right-wing ideologues. Democrats, what’s your plan?” Hardy is a co-chair of the Los Angeles Lawyer chapter of the American Constitution Society.
Alan Kang (JD 2004), the plaintiff’s attorney in a lawsuit against Rancho Palos Verdes’ Terranea Resort, was quoted in the Daily Breeze newspaper about the case.
Brien R. Kelley (JD 2000), a partner in the real estate practice of Sklar Kirsh LLP, was named by the Los Angeles Business Journal to its list of “Top Minority Attorneys in L.A.” While at USC Gould, Kelley was a Legion Lex Merit Scholar, vice president of the Black Law Students Association and a member of the Hale Moot Court Honors Program.
Brandon Kennedy (JD 2012) joined the U.S. Department of Justice’s international trade field office as a trial attorney representing the government at the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York. He was previously employed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
