Law Briefs
By Catherine MacRae Hockmuth

Kim Greer has been named assistant managing principal of the San Diego office of Fish & Richardson. John Gartman will continue as managing principal, a post he has held since 1998. Greer is a member of the firm’s white-collar defense, government and securities litigation group. Her practice includes defending companies and their officers and directors in shareholder class actions, merger and derivative litigation as well as investigations and proceedings initiated by the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulatory agencies. Greer earned her law degree from the University of Michigan.

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The city of San Diego is one of four cities in the nation that will be honored for its public and private partnership in the creation of its Family Justice Center. The National League of Cities will present the 2004 James C. Howland Award for Municipal Enrichment at a conference in Indianapolis, Ind., in December. The city will receive a cash award of $2,000 to be donated to a community, nonprofit organization selected by the city.

The center, which opened in October 2002, combines more than 120 domestic violence professionals from seven city and county agencies and 24 nonprofit organizations in one accessible building. The center also has a forensic medical unit that specializes in documenting and treating non-life threatening injuries from domestic violence. Next month, the center will open a new children’s facility to coordinate child abuse and domestic violence services in one location.

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San Diego trial attorney David Casey will receive the Daniel T. Broderick III award at the 20th Annual Red Boudreau Trial Lawyers Dinner Oct. 9. Casey was president of the Association of American Trial Lawyers from 2003 to 2004. The award is named after a highly regarded San Diego trial attorney who was shot by his ex-wife in 1989. Casey, a partner with Casey Gerry Reed & Schenk, specializes in personal injury and wrongful death cases.

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Patent attorney Ned Israelson is chairing BioNetwork 2004, a national conference scheduled Oct. 4-6 in Laguna Beach, Calif., and focused on forming long-term and lucrative alliances in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Israelson will also moderate the conference’s first panel discussion. Israelson is managing partner of the San Diego office of intellectual property firm Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear. The firm has six offices across California.

catherine.hockmuth@sddt.com