OCBA Appellate Law Section Immediate Past Chair and Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner M.C. Sungaila was recently appointed to the Judicial Council's Appellate Advisory Committee and the State Bar of California Appellate Courts Committee.

Sungaila is an appellate bar leader on the international, national and local levels. She chairs both the International Association of Defense Counsel's Appellate Practice and Amicus Curiae Committees, serves on the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Amicus Curiae Briefs (a seven-member committee appointed by the ABA President to vet all amicus briefs filed by the ABA), and co-chairs the ABA Judicial Division and Litigation Section Amicus Brief committees. She also serves as a 9th Circuit Appellate Lawyer Representative and is a member of the Judicial Council Advisory Committee on Civil Jury Instructions (appointed by the Chief Justice of California).

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