General Membership Meeting – October 15, 2024
The Life Cycle of an Employment Case: What Paralegals and Legal Secretaries Need to Know
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
5:30-8:00PM
Speaker: Aaron Hayes, Esq.
Aaron A. Hayes is Senior Counsel at O’Hagan Meyer LLP and represents clients in all areas of litigation defense including employment, directors & officers, personal injury and commercial litigation. Aaron has extensive experience defending employers against all types of employment claims, including wage and hour, discrimination, harassment and wrongful termination claims under both state and federal law.
Aaron also brings to his practice prior experience as a claims attorney for a national insurer.
O’Hagan Meyer LLP
One Embarcadero Ctr, Ste 2100
San Francisco, CA 94111
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October 22, 2024 Brown Bag WEBINAR
Surrogacy and Egg Donation 101: The Basics of Art Contracts from Match to Clearance
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Price: FREE!
Presented by: Debbye Rosenthal & Nikki Wehmeir
Debrah “debbye” rosenthal first discovered her passion for the field of third party reproductive law while attending the University of California, San Diego. An honors graduate, debbye received her Bachelor’s degree in sociology, with a minor in law and society. Ddebbye then obtained her law degree from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law In San Diego, California where she graduated Cum Laude. While in law school, Debbye honed her legal knowledge of this emerging field as a teaching assistant for a reproductive justice class and serving as an executive board member of Law Students for Reproductive Justice. Shortly after passing the California Bar Exam, Debbye began working for a small assisted reproductive technology law office in Los Angeles. After a few years with the Los Angeles office, Debbye made the decision to open her own firm in Orange County. Since that time she’s been living in Orange County, where she enjoys spending time with friends and family at the beach, rigorous workouts at the local gym, walks with the office dog, Benny, at Balboa Island, and trips to Disney Land. Debbye is anactive member of the Academy of California Adoption-art Lawyers, The Society for Ethics in Egg Donation and Surrogacy, and ABA art division.
Nikki has worked in the infertility industry since 2009. As the egg donation program manager at Be Egg Donation, she brings a wealth of expertise in both egg donation and surrogacy, with a particular focus on supporting intended parents and egg donors throughout their unique journeys. Nikki advocates for open and semi-open donation agreements, regularly lending her voice to their importance. A founding member of Seeds(Society for Ethics in Egg Donation and Surrogacy), Nikki currently serves as chair of the newsletter committee and is anactive member of the donor conceived community’s professionals group. Over the years, she has had the privilege of playing as ignificant role in thousands of family-building journeys. Her dedication extends beyond her professional work, having donated her uterus in a transplant trial to help a woman born without one.
Nikki’s personal connections to the infertility community run deep, through the many friends and family members she has supported, including her brother and sister-in-law on their IVF journey to her two nephews. Her passion for family building, combined with her compassion and expertise, drives her to make a positive impact in the lives of those she helps. She is also a mother of two (a daughter who is almost24 and a son who is 15…. as well as “furmom” to two dogs, Awesome and Betty White.
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