Berman DeValerio Associate Victor S. Elias was appointed to the Board of Directors of La Raza Centro Legal, a San Francisco community-based legal organization, adding to the number of firm attorneys who are leaders of professional and community groups.
Mr. Elias joined the firm last year and focuses his practice on securities fraud litigation, representing investors in General Electric, Zynga and BP, among other actions. La Raza Centro Legal is a social justice center that helps Latino, immigrant and low-income San Franciscans advocate for their legal and civil rights. In addition to serving on the organization’s Board of Directors, Mr. Elias is also a member of the San Francisco La Raza Lawyers Association, the Hispanic National Bar Association and the Bar Association of San Francisco. He earned his J.D. from the USC Gould School of Law in 2008 and a B.A. from UCLA in 2004.
In addition to Mr. Elias, other Berman DeValerio attorneys serving as leaders of professional and community groups include:
Norman Berman serves on the board of directors of the Boston Workmen’s Circle Center for Jewish Culture & Social Justice and is a co-founder and director of In Good Company, Inc., a nonprofit group which creates musical theater productions inspired by U.S. history.
For the past 15 years, Joseph J. Tabacco, Jr. has served as a member of the board of directors of Bay Area Legal Aid, the largest provider of legal services for the underprivileged in the San Francisco Bay area. BALA is committed to providing meaningful access to the civil justice system through quality legal assistance, regardless of a client’s location, language or disability. Previously, Mr. Tabacco was appointed by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to serve on its Magistrate Judge Merit Selection Panel and its Model Protective Order Revision Committee.
Christopher T. Heffelfinger sits on the board of directors of the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, a nonprofit legal services organization that has assisted California’s low-income working families for more than 90 years. He is also on the board of directors for the Mountain Play Association in Marin County, Calif., which organizes annual open-air amphitheatre musical performances atop Mount Tamalpais.
Todd A. Seaver is on the executive committee of the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Antitrust and Business Regulation Section, which sponsors continuing legal education programs, helps solve problems in the field of antitrust law, and proposes changes in applicable statutes and regulations.
Kristin J. Moody is a National Advisory Board member and Boston Advisory Council chair for Generation Citizen, which partners college students and classroom teachers in low-income schools to teach an action civics course in which teens solve problems they face in their own communities. Generation Citizen’s mission is to empower historically under-represented youth to become active participants in the democratic process. Ms. Moody is also a member of the Advisory Board of Fisher College.
Sarah Khorasanee McGrath is co-chair of the Younger Lawyers Division, Northern District of California, of the Federal Bar Association, which seeks to strengthen the federal legal system and administration of justice by serving the interests and needs of practitioners, the federal judiciary and the public.
Nathaniel L. Orenstein is on the board of directors of the Center for Insurance Research, an independent nonprofit organization that advocates on behalf of insurance consumers in Massachusetts and across the country.
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