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32 AN ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT TO THE LOS ANGELES BUSINESS JOURNAL
OCTOBER 26, 2015
Publisher’s Letter
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to our sixth annual Los Angeles Business Journal Corporate Counsel Awards special supplement, in which we celebrate the outstanding work performed by the remarkable individuals and teams of attorneys that form the in-house counsels for our leading businesses here in Los Angeles. In the following pages we hope to shed some additional light on some of the premier examples of corporate counsel working among us today. These are the finalists and honorees we singled out for exceptional legal skill and achievement across the full spectrum of in-house responsibility, exemplary leadership as evidenced by the highest professional and ethical standards, and for contributions to the Los Angeles community at large. Our celebration of these examples of excellence took place at our Corporate Counsel Awards luncheon and awards ceremony on Friday, October 16th at the JW Marriott at LA Live. The list of prestige finalists — each an example of excellence in the field corporate counsel — made it particularly difficult to arrive at the honorees. Six honorees are detailed in this section in five different categories – “Public Company Corporate Counsel,” ELCOME
“Private Company Corporate Counsel (>$500 Million),” “Private Company Corporate Counsel (