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Victoria Salisch Receives CalChamber Small Business Advocate of the Year Award

May 27, 2009 By

The California Chamber of Commerce honored five small business executives yesterday with its “2009 Small Business Advocate of the Year” award, recognizing recipients for their advocacy efforts on behalf of small businesses.

The CalChamber presented the awards at a luncheon before more than 400 attendees at the CalChamber Business Summit in Sacramento.

2009 Winners (left to right:) Mark Waronek, Victoria Salisch, Dave Penry, Lou Monville. Not pictured Cynthia Schnieder

    2009 Small Business Advocate of the Year Award recipients are:

  • Victoria Salisch, Partner, Lang, Richert & Patch, Attorneys at Law, Fresno
  • Lou Monville, Vice President, O’Reilly Public Relations, Riverside
  • Dave Penry, Owner, Pacific Landscapes, Santa Rosa
  • Cynthia Schneider, Senior Vice President, American Security Bank, Corona
  • Mark Waronek, Owner, Waronek and Associates, Torrance

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“Women Helping Women” Luncheon A Great Success!

May 20, 2009 By

By Ana de Alba
Board member, Fresno County Women Lawyers

A call to action heard loud and clear in the legal community was answered last month during the Fresno County Women Lawyers’ “Women Helping Women” luncheon. The luncheon featured speakers Jenny Bates, Director of The Hacienda Drug/Alcohol Rehabilitation Center for Women and Deborah Torres, Director of Samaritan Women. The speakers shared stories of how their organizations help women who have been incarcerated get back on their feet. Those attending the luncheon were asked to donate career clothing, toiletries, postage stamps, and bus tokens to help these wonderful organizations improve the lives of the women they serve. Generating donations for both organizations, FCWL members took up the call to action and made the luncheon an amazing success.

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Filed Under: Business Law, Community, Company News, Copyright/Patents, Litigation, Uncategorized

Thoughts on Music: DRM, iTunes and the iPod

February 16, 2007 By

by Steve Jobs
www.apple.com

February 6, 2007: With the stunning global success of Apple’s iPod music player and iTunes online music store, some have called for Apple to “open” the digital rights management (DRM) system that Apple uses to protect its music against theft, so that music purchased from iTunes can be played on digital devices purchased from other companies, and protected music purchased from other online music stores can play on iPods. Let’s examine the current situation and how we got here, then look at three possible alternatives for the future.

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Filed Under: Community, Copyright/Patents, Technology

US Senate Introduces Strong Privacy Bill

February 8, 2007 By

by Vidura Panditaratne
Press Esc

February 7, 2007: US Senators yesterday introduced a bill that better protects the privacy of citizens’ personal information in the face of data security breaches across the country.

Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) co-sponsored the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act, which was first introduced in 2005 with co-sponsorship from Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) following serious data breaches at ChoicePoint and LexisNexis.

Senator Specter, who is the Ranking Member on the panel, is co-sponsoring the bill again this Congress.

Since then breaches at several other firms and within state and federal governments have exposed millions of Americans to identity theft by leaking or losing their personal data, which included names, addresses, and sometimes Social Security numbers.

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Filed Under: Community, Litigation, Technology

The Power of Apology

January 24, 2007 By

by Michael T. Hertz
Lang, Richert & Patch

A few months back, Playboy magazine ran a cover, showing Jessica Alba. Alba, miffed at the unauthorized use of her photo, threatened to sue. In response, Hugh Hefner, Playboy’s founder, wrote a personal letter of apology, and the magazine made donations to two charities which Alba supports. Result? Alba decided to drop her claims against the magazine.

What a wonderful result for everyone. Ms. Alba got her grievance recognized, some deserving charities got money, and we were all spared the cost and silliness of yet another unnecessary lawsuit. We bet you didn’t know that Mr. Hefner’s apology took some courage. If Ms. Alba had decided to sue, she would have been free to argue that the apology was an admission of fault. So a gracious gesture would have been turned into a lawyer’s bludgeon. (As attorneys, we would take a certain amount of umbrage at such a tactic, even though it’s perfectly legal).

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Firm Sponsors Community Food Bank

August 15, 2005 By

Lang, Richert & Patch is pleased to announce that it has teamed up with Community Food Bank as one of its primary corporate sponsors. The Food Bank has been preventing hunger and malnutrition throughout the Central Valley since 1992. Community Food Bank is currently partnered with over 160 local agencies which directly serve 80,000 people each month. These agencies include food pantries, residential shelters, community kitchens, and adult and child day care centers and before and after school programs.

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Filed Under: Community, Company News