News Scrapbook 1988

San Diego, CA) (San Diego CC?. Daily Transcnrt (Cir. D. 7,415 MAY 111988

Oceanside, CA (San Diego Co.) North County Blade Tribune ! Cir. D. 29,089) Cir. S. 30,498)

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F.< t. 1888 v Gray,, CpryOut OfEl Centro; North County Satellites Live Gray, Cary, ~es & Frye will have satellite offices, primarily in Fletcher has some clients there. tional Defense Bar Leaders Con. soon pull the last of its resident North County, this doesn't seem to The eight attorneys in the ference in Minneapolis. DRI has partners out of the El Centro office be a strong trend. Escondido office either live in 13,000 members nationwide. and staff it only with one legal sec- For some 30 years Luce, For- Escondido or the surrounding area. Sharon Blanchet, Karen retary, a move necessitated by dif- ward, Hamilton & Scrip')>s had It's not a prerequisite but "we feel Canoff, Brian Dunn, Anita ficult economic times in the Im- an office in La Jolla with from one it really helps." Margolis and Deborah Wolfe are perl .al Valley. Hinchy, Witte, Wood, Ander- running for the Board of Directors to four attorneys, and IO years ago "The change should largely he an office was opened in Carlsbad son & Hodges maintains a two- ofLawyers Club. complete by July l," said manag- that had as many as five, said attorney office in Rancho Bernardo David Dolka (University of San ing partner Josiah Neeper, who Miles Harvey, chairman of the for probate and estate planning Diego Law School) of Gray, Cary, hl·mself shuttled between San matters, and also has offices in Ames & Frye has been appointed firm's marketing committee. Diego and El Centro in 1981-82. Santa Ana and San Jose for collec- general counsel for the Otay Mesa San Diego's largest law firm has Last year it opened an office in tions and insurance subrogation. Chamber ofCommerce. been in the Imperial Valley for th e Regents II building in Univer- Administrator Jan Davidson * * "' about 10 years and may be the only sity City which merged th e La said that the Rancho Bernardo of- San Diego County one ever to have set up an office Jolla a nd Carlsbad offices. It now lice was established because it was Bar Association there. The firm will continue to ~=~~===========~~========~ Meetings, May 12-18 serve clients but attorneys will ® L B • -~ May 12 8W ne.1.S Th Envt'ronmental Law/Land reverse the commute and make the e two-hour trip from downtown San by Martin Kruming Use Section - Noon, Lounge Diego. Room of the University Club. he change has come about, ex- Speaker: John Lorman; Subject: plained Neeper, because "the Im- has 19 attorneys and, said Harvey, a "good market for the type of law" "Insurance Coverage of Hazardous perial Valley throughout the 1980s "we're going to have to put more and some attorneys lived in the Waste Problems." has experienced a slowdown by attorneys up there." He didn't North County who wanted to work The Attorney/Accountant Rela- reason of difficult times m agricul- know how many and how soon, but closer than downtown San Diego. tions Committee - 8 a.m., San ture" making it "more efficient" to believes " the need is there." Another firm which opened a Diego Pier Cafe (upper level) in go from a "resident office" to one of The bulk of Luce, Forward's Rancho Bernardo office - this one Seaport Village. Speakers: Arthur "convenience." e tate planning and probate work in 1979 - was Mclinnis, Fit- Brodshatzer, CPA; Robert Wallace, Ronald Pettis, who went to El is handled out of University City, zgerald, Rees, Sharkey & Mein- CPA; Subject: "Economic Experts Centro in 1982, added that the Im- which is able to serve Rancho San- tyre. However, five years later it & Some of the Games They Play on perial Valley has not had the ta Fe and La Jolla, and even Point moved to Escondido, where it now the Witness Stand." "growth economy" that San Diego Loma and Mission Hills. has four attorneys, two partners ,s experiencing. "They'd rather go to UTC (than and two associates. M .. Mal YC 16 downtown) because the parking "We tend to rotate our associates The umcipa ourt Commit- Of the other partners in the of- tee - Noon, Conference Room. Bar fice, Jay Jeffcoat is on sabbatical, and traffic is easier," said Harvey. into that office," said legal ad- Offices. and for the past year, Rick Storms In addition to the four attorneys ministrator Dave Whitson. Probate Subcommittee of the has been primanl a d in an in e::.tate planning and probate, ., ,.. ., there are seven m the busmeRs sec- Legislature Committee - 303 A Diego although he has spent a Scenes: Some lawyers at last St S ·t 402 tion, which includes high tech, and ·• U1 • great deal of time in El Centro. Friday's Law Week luncheon at May 17 In January, associate Anne th ree or four in real eS t ate. the downtown Marriott had to wait The Computer Law & High Richardson left Gray, ,Cary and The decision to open a Carlsbad more than 25 minutes to get out of Technology Section _ Noon, started with Byrd, Sturdevant, office was made because of the the parking lot next to Seaport Varsity Room of the University

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F1gueredo's efforts paid off in February, when four nuns from Mother Tere. a':; order began their work in Tijuana. For ticket orders, mail a pre addre ed stamped envelope to lother Teresa \'1 1t, USO Alcal11 Park, San Diego, 92110 Th order should rncludc name, address, phone and number of tickets. For more information or for ticket for a large group, call

harity, will speak at 2 p,m Tue day )tny :n, at the Uni- ver 1ty of San Diego's Torero S l(!'t1 ta ii r. Ht•r pre entation I free and open (I) the public, but tickeb are required due to hm1lcd atmg Mother Tcre a was inv,tcd to USD by Dr. Anita Figuer o, who wa Ill· trum ntal m getting a San

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San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) San Diego Union (Cir. D. 217,089) (Cir. S. 341,840)

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Daily Transcrirt (Cir. D. 7,415 MAY 1 8 1988

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Harmon & Pace in El Centro. According to Pettis, Gray, Cary had as many as six attorneys in the " It's interesting work. There are interesting people," said Pettis, who noted the amount of interna- The firm will continue to main- tain its La Jolla satellite office and, according to Neeper, "at the pres- ent time" there are no plans to add valley at one time. tional business.

"exploding North County market." However, after much study the decision was made to close both La Jolla and Carlsbad because UTC has become such a "dynamic grow- ing area," said Harvey, which •·may or may not be a Century Ci- For the foreseeable future "our region of influence will be Los Angeles south," said Harvey. "No sight on Orang<: County, though. Harvey referred to five or six yeffiar ago ;"hen "we attempted an a 1hation' with the Los Angeles firm of Hill, Jeffer & Mangles. "That very loose affiliation lasted for a few years",and w:.is disbanded One of the first firms to mo"e in orth County in the early l 970s was Higgs, Fletcher & Mack which started an Escondido office with two attorneys. Now there are eight. "Local people want a small office to handle their problems," said of- fice administrator Ray Guinn. The Escondjdo office deals primari- ly with real estate and land use, business litigation, personal injury defense and municipalities. In 1980 Higgs, Fletcher opened an Oceanside office because "the people from the coast area didn't want to drive over to Escondido and wanted lawyers in the North Coast area," said Guinn. It was closed after two years. "I don't think there's enough busi- ness up there to sustain a large firm," said Guinn, emphasizing that this was his personal opinion. Now " we try to service it from Escondido." Another growing area that could be serviced frmn Escondido is Ran- cho California, 30 minutes north of Escondido which is also within reach of Riverside, Orange County and Los Angele law firms. Higgs, to ty." Expansion plans? because it was "not mutually beneficial."

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Club. Speaker: Robert K. Ped- dycord; Subject: "Software Escrows: Issues & Alternatives." The Bankruptcy Law Section _ Noon, Conference Room at 110 Ruderman, Jim Drylie & Dan Ro bertson; Subject: "Effective Rela- tionships Between Bankruptcy Practitioners &Court Personnel." The Bar History Committee_ 5 p.m., Conference Room. Bar Of The Legal Ethics & Unlawful Practice Committee _ Noon, Conference Room. Bar Offices. The Real Property Law Section Noon, Varsity Room of the University Club. Speaker: Dick - fices. May 18

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h ut t,300 students graduate three separo~,.r.1 r.O\,Qmonies at ll~D thjli weekend. aturday, ,John Ely';'a'cun of the Stanford School of L,tw, will peak at 10:30 a.m. to about ;no gr duating law stu• d,•nt . Fo.-re t humway, rC'tired CEO of the 1gnal Cos., speaks to 250 gradu,,tlll~ b•raduate students ,,t 10:30 a.m, Sunday. Joan Kroc will make rem rks that day to 750 und 'l'b'Tadu tes in 2:30 p.m ce~- l·monv Each of the peakers 1s recc,~ing an honorar,; degree. / 111

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Dave Roll has been named to the second-team Academic All·Amejc_a Rolls, the West Coast Atlfleuc Con- ference MVP, 1 a business-adminis- tration major with a cumulative 3.22 Rolls hit .374 for the Torreros (28- 28) and set school season records for home runs (18), RBI (70) and walks baseball team. Cf 'l'S grade-point average.

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be mor workable an.-,·~who want th ·ir property toap- Dalton vigoro 1ly opposed th e new rul as ccia1e. S11Ke none ot us wanes co be any too broad, but could not g t enough vol to thc,e n.1 ty things, Goodkin leaves us prevent its adophoq/ other alternative than to join hi ide. L~_ ___ __:/~-------:- 7 =Regarding hb over implification , consider his broad hrush charactcriza- t10m of S.111 Diq;o\ problems and pos i- hle solutions In Goodkin's world , tr.iffic prohkm, can be cured hy car pooling, staggered work houri,, and dragging peo- ple out of their automobiks, peopk don't hate but love congestion because they crowded into the downtown area to enjor the Super Bowl parties, and traffic b :an inevitahle hy-product of making hah1t·s

smog-infested , overcrowded, and ugly Tinsel Town. Under that option, an Diegans will spend more time in their car.., die earli- er because of respiratory problems, wim in oceans and bays that are infe t- ed with sewage, ration their water, and suffer electricity brownouts. Nobody can want this except developer., who, by the time the crunch comes, will have moved out of town in search of the next farmland to urbanize. Second, City and County officials can accommodate all new growth but rai e taxes and fees and float bond i sues to pay for all the problem that growth implie Under thb option, existing San Diego residents will be forced to pay for much of the price tag of growth , and they will sec their total tax burden rise br 200 10 400 percent . In a town in- habited by a strong coru.ervative, anti-tax contingent which is already saddled with a high cost of living, this is clearly politically inkasible. Third, Cit)' and County officials can manage growth in San Diego through .i comprehensive seeks of policies which include: modcrJting the rate of residential as well as commercial and in- du trial development through permit ra- tioning, preservation of open space through passage of a bill such as the Sen- ilivc Lands Initiative, reduction of " boosterism ' which encourages growth, dbcouraging i.oh growth in low end occupation , and instituting region- al impact fees on development to for_ce newcomers to pay their fair hare of the co ts growth imposes on the City. This last option is the kind of respon- sible position of growth management that the gra roots organizations which attended the Orange County debate are advocating. Locally, it is also the position embod- ied in the Quality of Life Initiative put on the November ballot by the Citizens for Limited Growth. This position should in no way be confused with the extremist "no-grow1her" position that Goodkin want to paint hi opposition with. Moreover, it 1s a position that is in har- mony with broad pnbiic opinion in an Diego, and this support for managed growth cuts across a wide swath of peo- ple of all economic and social groups. Goodkin, wake up and see the con- gest ion, pollution, and emerging public facilities financing crisis threatening 10 engulf this city if we foten to your ad- v~ • Peter Navarro Is a professor of eco- nomtcs at the lfnil!ersily of San, Diego and a member of the City ofSan Die- go's Citizen's Advisory Committee on Growth anti Development. /

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Imperial Beach, CA (San Diego Co.) Imperial Star Beach News (Cir. 2 x W. 2,730) (Cir. S. 2,568) MAY 12 1988

In addition, builder hate IO build muh1 family units and don't make any monq doing ii, impau fees on de- vl'lopt•r,, to par for lm:al Mreets, parks, 1 ihr:trte,, fm; Mation,, and sewage capac- it} :trc too high ; and n>mtraining growth w11l th:Mroy the economy. Finall y, huilder -not mayors who don 't build anything-arc the good guy who never ever try to lobby politicians to obtain t·xemptions, v.iriances, or down 10 m;1ke a bigger or faster buck, and San Diego will foll into an economic deprcs,ion uukss

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) San Diego Newsllne (Cir. W. 15,000) AY 1 o 1988

Fallbrook, CA (San Diego Co.) Fallbrook Enterprise (Cir. W. 6,173)

National City, CA (San Diego Co.) Star News (Cir. 2 x W. 3,336) (Cir. S. 3,301) MAY 12 1988

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Leydon. Bridesmaids will be her sister DeAnn Mercer as well as Susan Payne. Best Man will be Keith Payne and t.:hers will be Graham Payne and Brian Mercer. · The couple, who will honey- moon in England. met on Christ- mas Eve 1983 at the bride's workplace through a mutual friend. The bride graduated from Fallbrook High School, received an A.A. degree from Palomar Junior College and attends Cal State Fullerton. She plans to enter the Teacher Credentia 1 Program in the fall of 1989. She 1s employed bv American Stores · · The groom graduated from Vista High School, received a B.A from San Diego State and his law degree from the Univer- sity of San._Qiego School of Law~ He is an attorney employed as Real Estate Manager for American Stores Properties, Inc He is a mem er f the California Bar Association . The bride's parent s are Nan- eye and Carl Mercer of Ocean- side . ThP g room 's parents are No rma amd Geoff Parne of Vi s ta ·

Raymond Payne, Jody Mercer Jody Mercer and Ravmond Pa.vne of Mission Viej~ will marrv on July 23 at I p.m. at the Rancho Capistrano Community Church in San Juan Capistrano. Officiating will be Father Bob Tally of All Saints Episcopal Church in Vista. Chuck Mangione's "'Chase the Clouds Away" and the "Theme from Somewhere m Time" will be pla_ved by Laura Angel on th~ harp A reception will be held at the outdoor court.vard of the Rancho Capistrano Renewal Center in San Juan Capistrano. A rehear- sal dinner wi ll be given by the groom's parents Norma and Geoff Payne at Olemendi 's in San Juan Capistrano. The bride 's Matron of Honor will be her sister LeAnn Merce r-

Darld H. Dolkas, attorney at law with the firm Gray, Cary, Amea & Frye, has been recently appointed general counsel lor the newly formed Otay Mesa Chamber of Commerce. Dolkas, a resident ol San Diego, Is a 1982 graduate from the Unl~eralty _of San DI~ and practices In the fleld ol clvll lltlgatlona.