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State Bar & Bar Associations

Jan. 28, 2010

O.C. Bar President to Foster New Ideas

Lei Lei Wang Ekvall, who helped start a clinic in Orange County to help poor people filing bankruptcy without a lawyer, became the first Asian-American president of the 7,500-member county bar.

By Don J. DeBenedictis

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SANTA ANA - Over lunch a few years ago, Lei Lei Wang Ekvall and a colleague decided it was time to start a clinic in Orange County to help poor people filing bankruptcy without a lawyer. By the time Wang Ekvall's year as chair of the Orange County Bar Association's bankruptcy section was up in 2000, the clinic had taken off.

Last Thursday, Wang Ekvall became the first As...

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