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State Bar & Bar Associations

Jan. 29, 2009

Lighting the Way for More Lawyer Leaders

A meeting as an associate 20 years ago launched O'Melveny & Myers partner Michael G. Yoder's path toward the presidency of the Orange County Bar Association. He took the helm of the 8,500-member organization this month.

By Don J. DeBenedictis
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SANTA ANA - Michael G. Yoder was a new associate at his first law firm in the early 1980s when his supervising partner told him to go to a meeting. Yoder went.

It turned out to be a meeting of the Constitutional Rights Foundation, the volunteer group that sponsors high school moot court competitions and other projects to teach young people about the law. Others at the meeting included some of the b...

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