With Honors

January 1, 2004

The Daily Journal

George V. Genzmer, III has been elected Secretary of the Southern California Professional Liability Underwriting Society Steering Committee. Mr. Genzmer has been a member of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) for a number of years and has held a position on the Southern California Steering Committee for the past four years. Mr. Genzmer is a frequent lecturer at PLUS seminars, including a recent presentation on Business Torts and Professional Liability Claims at the PLUS Days seminar in September 2003. Mr. Genzmer is Chair of the firm's Professional Liability and Directors & Officers Liability Practice Groups.

Antonio J. Gonzalez has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the national Mexican American Bar Association (M.A.B.A.). One of two elected trustees with less than five years experience, Mr. Gonzalez's one-year term began on January 1, 2004. The 11-member Board of Trustees is responsible for implementing and improving M.A.B.A.'s programs, which include scholarship programs, services to provide low cost legal aid and the drafting & lobbying of legislation to assist the Mexican-American community. Mr. Gonzalez is an associate in M&C's Los Angeles office, where he focuses his practice in the areas of general liability, product liability and employment law.

Kathleen Lawler, Communication Director of Murchison & Cumming, LLP was named the Public Relations Society of America's Los Angeles Chapter's "Most Outstanding Young Professional of the Year" for 2003. Ms. Lawler manages all public relations, marketing and client relations/business development activities for the firm's 85 attorneys and five offices in two states. She has been a member of PRSA-LA for three years and will serve as President of PRSA-LA's Young Professionals Group for 2004. She is also a member of the Legal Marketing Association and International.