LAWYERS FOR WARRIORS 2025
Join us as we celebrate 11 incredible years of advocacy for our Veterans. This event marks over a decade of dedication, empowerment, and victories for those who've served.
Save the Date: November 14, 2025
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Balboa Bay Club, 1221 West Coast Hwy., Newport Beach, CA, 92663
Dress Code: Formal Civilian & Military Attire
Attorney of the year
John Manly, Esq.
Law Firm of the Year
Rutan & Tucker LLP
Veteran Advocates of the Year
Melissa Stanley
Veteran of the Year
Hon. Richard King
Community Partner of the Year
OC Lawyer Magazine
Title Sponsor
Wright Ford Young & Co.

Veteran Champions
- Judicate West Foundation
Lieutenant General Sponsors
- Rutan & Tucker, LLP
- Vice Chair Katrina Foley, OC Board of Supervisors – Fifth District.
- National Private Label LLC
Major General Sponsors
- Smart Forensics
- Orange County Register
Brigadier General Sponsors
- Dawson & Dawson
- Seastrom Tuttle & Murphy
- Stifel
- Minyard Morris
- Jason and Lanän Clark
- Larsen & Naddour
- BakerHostetler
- Robin Taylor
Colonel Sponsor
- TLD Law
- American Legion Post 291
- Littler Mendelson PC
- Angels Foundation
- Everett Dorey LLP
- Western State College of Law
- CDF Labor Law
- Greenberg Traurig
- Alston & Bird LLP
- O'Melveny
- Law Offices of Lee R. Goldberg
- ArentFox Schiff
- Chapman Fowler School of Law
- Silvana Sarkis, JD of American Classic Realty
Major Sponsors
- OurFamilyWizard
- OCBA Corporate Counsel
- Atticus Law Group
- Callahan Dispute Resolution
- Frost Law Firm, PC
- Klein & Wilson LLP
- Hodes Milman
- John Tran/Bank of America
- ADR Services/James Gray
- Kaufman Steinberg LLC
- Round Table Group
- Darvin Research and Consulting
- Navy Federal Credit Union
- VAREP
- Farmers & Merchant Bank
- OCBA Lawyer Referral & Information Service
- Cris Pacheco
- Lydia Liberio
- Pete Seitz/AUSA (pending)
- MAZAREI LAW GROUP, INC
- JEM Remodel & Construction Inc.
Underwriters


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