Neighbors
Kimberly Nobles and Sam Lu were elected as partners of Irell & Manella
LLP, a full-service law firm with offices in Newport Beach and Los
Angeles. Lu focuses on representing high-technology companies in a
variety of intellectual property matters, including litigation and
transactions involving patents and trade secrets. He is admitted to
practice before the U.S. District Courts for the northern and central
districts of California, the southern and eastern districts of New York
and the U.S. Supreme Court. Lu was formerly a faculty member at the
Practicing Law Institute Patent Litigation 1999 seminar. Nobles focuses
on representing high-tech and medical technology companies in patents,
trade secrets, copyrights and trademarks. Her patent litigation
experience includes technologies relating to electronic systems,
communications, semiconductors, computer hardware, software and graphics,
and optical devices. She received her juris doctorate from USC Law
School, where she graduated order of the coif, in the top 3% of her class
and served as the editor of the Southern California Law Review while at
school. She is a registered patent attorney, licensed to practice before
the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Irell & Manella LLP was founded in
Los Angeles in 1941 and has a legal staff of 240 attorneys, about 89 of
which are partners. The firm was recently named New Economy Leader by the
American Lawyer magazine. . . . Two students from Newport Beach attending
Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, Penn., earned spots on the school’s
honor roll for the fall term. Katherine Edrie Rader, a 12th-grader and
daughter of Melinda B. Rader of Newport Beach, and 11th-grader Jeremy
Matthew Katz, son of Dr. and Mrs. Stanley G. Katz of Newport Beach, were
both named to the school’s honor roll. Mercersburg Academy is an
independent, coeducational college preparatory boarding and day school
that has been preparing students for four-year colleges and universities
since 1893. The school had 425 students from 25 states and 19 foreign
countries enrolled in 2001. . . . Kelly Freeman of Newport Beach has
enrolled at Dartmouth College for the class of 2005. She is the daughter
of Kathleen and Alan Freeman. Dartmouth is the ninth-oldest college in
the United States, with enrollment including more than 4,300
undergraduates and 1,200 graduate students in the arts and sciences and
graduate schools of business, engineering and medicine. . . . Julie Diem
Nguyen of Costa Mesa was awarded a doctor of pharmacy degree from Samford
University in Birmingham, Ala., during the university’s commencement
ceremonies Dec. 15. Samford is Alabama’s largest private university,
enrolling 4,400 students from 39 states and 26 nations. . . . Kirsten
Kaylor, daughter of Barbara James of Costa Mesa, received her bachelor’s
degree in political science with a minor in religion at commencement
ceremonies for Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., held Dec. 19. Kaylor
was among 77 students who participated in commencement ceremonies for the
four-year liberal arts institution of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America. . . . Anne Schack has assumed the practice of the Diplomate
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Newport Beach from James
Stanley, who retired. She is the co-developer of the integrated pain
management department.
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