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Robert S. Gerber, partner in the Sheppard, Mullin, Richter Hampton law firm, has been presented the firm's 2010 Pro Bono Attorney of the Year Award and also was named Sheppard eastern mediterranean cruising with children Mullin's Pro Bono Attorney of the Decade. Gerber has been chair of the pro bono committee from 2001 through 2010. The honors recognize the community service eastern mediterranean cruising with children work done by the firm's attorneys and Gerber, who is based in the San Diego/Del Mar office.
Gerber has handled dozens of pro bono cases in cooperation with a variety of San Diego and Los Angeles-based pro bono referral agencies, including eastern mediterranean cruising with children landlord/tenant, breach of contract, family law, free speech, administrative law proceedings, arbitrations, mediations, trials, and appeals. Sheppard Mullin experienced a 400 percent eastern mediterranean cruising with children increase in its attorneys' donation of indigent pro bono hours during Gerber's tenure as pro bono chair, the firm said.
Gerber began the decade with a precedent-setting decision in the Ninth Circuit in an immigration case, in which he obtained asylum and withholding of deportation for a transsexual teenager from Mexico who had been raped, incarcerated and otherwise persecuted on account of his sexual identity. Years later, he handled another precedential case, obtaining what was believed to be the first civil monetary settlement eastern mediterranean cruising with children for a teenage victim of human trafficking under California Civil Code Section 52.5.
"Pro bono is one of the finest traditions of our profession," said Gerber. "It offers an excellent opportunity to serve the community, while achieving personal fulfillment and professional development."
A team from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy Immunology has demonstrated the effectiveness of a computer model in predicting important information about nasal insulin treatment of type 1 juvenile diabetes. Diabetes researcher Matthias von Herrath led the team, which developed the software from funding received through the American Diabetes Association. The findings, which also showed the platform's ability to predict critical type 1 diabetes molecular "biomarkers," were published in the December issue of the scientific journal Diabetes , and further validate the importance of the new model as a valuable research tool in type 1 diabetes, the team said.  The software is designed to enable researchers to rapidly streamline laboratory research through the evaluation of alternative scenarios for therapeutic strategies that show the most promise for working in humans. "Since eastern mediterranean cruising with children laboratory studies can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and early stage human clinical eastern mediterranean cruising with children trials can cost $10 million dollars or more, predicting the right conditions eastern mediterranean cruising with children to try is important," said von Herrath, director of the Type 1 Diabetes Research Center at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy Immunology, where the studies were conducted.
Charles Adolphe and Bryan Teel, formerly with Cushman Wakefield, have joined the Grubb Ellis Co. in San Diego. Adolphe is senior vice president and Teel is associate vice president. Adolphe began his career with Grubb Ellis in 1988. He returns to the company from Cushman Wakefield eastern mediterranean cruising with children where he served as a director for the past three years. He previously spent nine years with Burnham Real Estate until it was acquired by Cushman eastern mediterranean cruising with children Wakefield in 2007. Adolphe holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California and served four years as a United States Naval Officer. He is a member of NAIOP and the San Diego and Otay Mesa Chambers of Commerce. Teel began his career with Cushman Wakefield in 2004 as an associate and holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Redlands as well as a master's degree from San Diego State University.
San Diegans Susan Atkins eastern mediterranean cruising with children and Robert Gleason have been elected to leadership positions in the national Gay Lesbian Victory Fund, an organization that works to increase the number of openly LGBT elected officials in the country. Atkins was elected chair and Gleason vice chair. Atkins, a member of the Victory Fund board since 2004, has 20 years of communications management eastern mediterranean cruising with children experience in life sciences and technology. In 1999, she founded one of the most successful agencies in the United States providing investor and public relations exclusively to life science companies and organizations, and sold the firm to Porter Novelli in 2005. Atkins becomes the first woman to chair the Victory Fund board since it restructured in 2006. Gleason is the chief financial eastern mediterranean cruising with children officer and general counsel of Evans Hotels, which owns and operates commercial properties and resorts, including The Lodge at Torrey Pines in La Jolla as well as the Bahia Resort Hotel and Catamaran Resort Hotel, both on Mission Bay.  The Victory Fund board also elected Steve Elmendorf of Washington, D.C., as secretary, and Harvey Hurdle of Philadelphia as treasurer.  Frank Selvaggi of New York, N.Y., was also elected to serve on the Victory Fund board.
LifeWave, an international distributorship company that offers a line of non-transdermal patch products, has signed a new five-year lease for 15,000 square feet of class A office space in Kearny Mesa that will serve as its new global headquarters. Located at 9444 Balboa Ave., Suite 150, the new space more than doubles LifeWave's current office. Employees will move from their La Jolla-based office into the new space mid-December. The new headquarters includes a variety of new amenities including a separate 4,000-square-foot research and design facility, a new training area for distributors, a media room that will allow the company to produce its own webcasts and broadcast training sessions, among other video production tasks.
Jonathan and Laura Pool have purchased a 7,400-square-foot retail shopping center at 8701 La Mesa Blvd. in La Mesa for $980,000. They plan to hold the property as an owner/user investment and will open a gun shop, selling eastern mediterranean cruising with children and reselling guns and ammunition. The seller, Carol M. Devore, trustee of the Leonard H. Devore Trust, was represented by Kyle Clark and Kipp Gstettenbauer of Cushman Wakefield. The buyers represented themselves.
JZ Group LLC has purchased a 12,690-square-foot industrial building in Sorrento Mesa for $1,472,040. Located at 9215 Brown Deer Road, the single-story eastern mediterranean cruising with children building will be used by the owner for chemistry lab space. Built in 1986 on .75 acres, the concrete tilt-up building is comprised of 80 percent warehouse space and 20 percent office space. Dean Asaro of CB Richard Ellis represented the seller, S J Property Holdings LLC. Andy Irwin, eastern mediterranean cruising with children also of CB Richard Ellis, represented JZ Group LLC.
• Dec. 13 – Buying and Selling a Business – 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Point Loma Nazarene University in Mission Valley (4007 Camino del Rio South, San Diego 92108; pre-paid registration $69, $79 at the door).
• Dec. 14 – How to Start and Manage Your Own Business Carlsbad – 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. at National University in Carlsbad (705 Palomar Airport Road, Carlsbad 92011; eastern mediterranean cruising with children pre-paid registration $69, $79 at the door).
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• Dec. 17 – Internet Marketing 303: Social Media – 9 a.m. to noon at Point Loma Nazarene University in Mission Valley (4007 Camino del Rio South, San Diego 92108; pre-paid registration $49, $59 at the door).
• Dec. 20 – Business Plan 201: How to Write a Business Plan – Carlsbad – 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at National University in Carlsbad (705 Palomar Airport Road, Carlsbad 92011; pre-paid registration $99, $109 at the door).
In the coming months, Probosky Research (one of California's leading opinion research firms) will continue its partnership with SD METRO to survey San Diego residents about topics of interest to our readers. We'd like to throw open the door for suggestions for topics. What do you want to know? What do you think you know, but aren't sure? What are you certain you know, but want to prove it beyond doubt? Ideally, we'd like to see questions that have to do with public policy.
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