Murchison & Cumming Hiring Committee Member to Speak out on Diversity

May 22, 2009

Gina E. Och, partner and Hiring Committee team member for Murchison & Cumming, LLP, is scheduled to be a panelist for the Beverly Hills Bar Association's (BHBA) Diversity in Law Firms seminar at the Beverly Hills Country Club on May 21, 2009. The seminar, conducted by BHBA's newly formed Diversity Committee, will focus on strategies for attorney career growth for minorities, women and immigrants. The panelists will be discussing ways in which law students can use their diversity to further their careers, and lawyers can increase client development during a time when law firms are facing more competition, fewer clients, shrinking markets, and fallout from the economic recession. As a panelist, Ms. Och will address issues such as the challenges and opportunities faced in career development, family friendly work policies in the office, and responding to discrimination in the workplace.

Ms. Och, a Guatemalan immigrant, has sought to set herself as an example for Latina professionals in the private sector and legal community during her years as both a law student and an attorney. At UCLA Law School, she served as Managing Editor of the Chicano-Latino Law Review, was a member of the Women's Law Journal, and helped establish the California La Raza Law Students group. As a member of Murchison & Cumming's Hiring Committee, Ms. Och continues her efforts to bring diversity to the law firm and legal field, and to advise her peers on the topic through events promoting diversity.

About Murchison & Cumming, LLP

With a firm history dating to 1930, Murchison & Cumming, LLP is a premier civil litigation firm with five offices in California and Las Vegas, whose attorneys specialize in the defense of domestic and international businesses, insurers and individuals, at trial and on appeal. The Firm’s attorneys also handle employment matters and business transactions. For additional information, please visit our website at www.murchisonlaw.com.