Attorney Diane L. Karpman to be Installed as 82nd President of the Beverly Hills Bar Assoc.

Diane
L. Karpman,
principal of the Beverly Hills law firm Karpman & Associates, is being
installed as the 82nd 
President of the Board of Governors of the Beverly Hills Bar Association
(BHBA) at the organization’s annual Installation and Awards Dinner on Tuesday,
October 1, 2013, 5:30 P.M., at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles.  Karpman and her board are being sworn in by
The Honorable Charles S. Vogel
(Ret.), who, in 1993, was appointed to the California Court of Appeals, Second
Appellate District, where he served as the Presiding Justice of Division Four
and the Administrative Presiding Justice until 2004.  Vogel also installs the officers of the BHBA
Barristers, the young lawyers’ section of the Bar Association, and the Beverly
Hills Bar Foundation, the charitable affiliate of the BHBA.  In addition, several BHBA awards are being
presented for outstanding service. 

The guest speaker is Hon. Arthur Gilbert, Presiding Justice of
the Court of Appeals Second District Division Six.  He was appointed to the Court of Appeals in
1982, was appointed Presiding Justice in 1999 and is a longtime columnist for
the Daily Journal.

Karpman & Associates is one of the premiere legal ethics firms in
California, exclusively serving the legal profession.  Karpman specializes in ethics
consultation, malpractice prevention, conflicts advice and State Bar defense
and also serves as an expert witness and consultant in legal malpractice and
breach of fiduciary duty cases.  Karpman, a Certified Legal Malpractice Expert, is a graduate of Hamilton
High School in Los Angeles and UCLA and was named Alumni of the Year by Western
State University College of Law, where she earned her J.D.  She teaches MCLE ethics programs nationally
and for the BHBA, which previously honored her with the Louis B. Fox Lifetime
Achievement Award, and for the past 15 years has written the monthly column
“Ethics Byte” for the California Bar Journal. 
Karpman, author of numerous papers on legal ethics, is a “Best” and a
“Super” lawyer.

In addition to Karpman, other Board of
Governors officers being sworn in by Vogel are President-Elect Linda E. Spiegel, certified mediator-attorney at law; First
Vice-President Howard S Fredman, of Fredman
Lieberman LLP, in Century City; Second Vice-President Howard
S. Fisher, of the Law Offices of Howard S. Fisher in Beverly
Hills;
Secretary/Treasurer Richard Kaplan,
of Kaplan Marino, P.C., in Beverly Hills; and Immediate Past President John K. Rubiner, principal of the
Century City law firm Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Drooks &
Lincenberg, APC.

The BHBA Barristers cabinet members to
be installed are President Autumn Ronda,
of Valensi Rose, PLC, in Century City; President Elect Doron Eghbali, of Law Advocate Group in Beverly Hills; Treasurer Jonathan
Dennis, of Rosen Saba LLP, in Beverly Hills; Secretary Laura Cable, of Rosen Saba LLP in Beverly Hills; and Immediate Past
President Jeanine Percival Wright,
of Media Temple, in Culver City.

Beverly Hills Foundation leadership to
be invested includes President Bonita Moore, of Bird, Marella,
Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Drooks & Lincenberg, APC, in
Century City;
President-Elect Gillian N. Brown, of Pachulski
Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP, in Los Angeles; Vice President Development Stephen P. Webb, of Tilles
Webb et al, in Beverly Hills; Vice Chair Development Roshni Gandhi, of the Law Offices of Roshni Gandhi, in Santa
Monica; Vice
President Scholarships Robert C. Aronoff,
of Law Offices of Robert C Aronoff, in Beverly Hills; Vice Chair
Scholarships Daren Schlecter, of the
Law Offices of Darren M. Schlecter, in Century City; Vice-President Grants Jill Levin, of Levin & Associates
in Westwood; Vice Chair Grants Linda
Blank, of Law Offices of Linda M. Blank, in Century City; Treasurer Gregory Rutchik, of the Office of
Gregory Rutchik, in Santa Monica; Secretary Marc A. Lieberman, of Fredman Lieberman LLP, in
Century City; and
Immediate Past President Dawn Coulson,
of Epps & Coulson in Los Angeles.

Outstanding service awards are being
presented to the following BHBA members: Nancy
Boxwell, of Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, Inc. in Beverly Hills, receives
the President’s Award; Michael Sohigian, of
the Law Office of Michael R. Sohigian in Westwood, receives the Board
of Governors’ Award; Alan W. Forsley, of Fredman
Lieberman, LLP, in Century City, accepts the Chief
Executive Officers’ Award; a Special Recognition Award goes to BHBA staff
members Carl Sinclair, Clarence Crites, Corey Burns, Dani Barr, Elaine Glass, Genna Kluchnikov, Jamaal
Warren, Janice Jackson, Jose Medina, Judie Phillips, Marian
Miller, Michael Nanawa, Pamela Weston, PJ Stratton, Shelley Rosen
and Vida Agcaoili; and the
Barristers’ Lawrence J. Blake Award is awarded to Roshni Gandhi.

Proceeds from the Installation and
Awards Dinner support the educational and community outreach programs of the
BHBA.

The Beverly Hills
Bar Association, serving the Los Angeles region since 1931, is the fifth
largest bar association in California with nearly 6,000 members.  Its mission is to serve its members, to lead
the legal profession and to advocate for justice in the community.

The Installation
Dinner is sponsored by Matloff Life, Health and Disability Insurance.  Tickets to the dinner are $215 per person
until September 16 and $235 thereafter. 
The Four Seasons Hotel is located at 300 South Doheny Drive in Los
Angeles.  For tickets or information call
(310) 601-2422 or visit www.bhba.org.