Each year, Orange County Lawyer magazine publishes an up-to-date list of the OCBA leadership as a service to our readers. It is through the dedication and continued efforts of the gracious volunteers who make up the OCBA Executive Committee, Board of Directors, Section Leadership, and Committee Chairs that the Bar is able to develop networking, educational, and community outreach events throughout the year in support of the OCBA’s mission:

To enhance the system of justice,

to support the lawyers who serve it,

and to assist the community served by it.

The 2025 Executive Committee is led by this year’s OCBA President, Mei Tsang, an intellectual property partner at Umberg Zipser LLP where she focuses on helping clients formulate their IP strategy and shepherding their IP through various business cycles worldwide. As OCBA President, she chairs the Board of Directors and is an exofficio member of all committees. She will be the president of the OCBA Charitable Fund Board of Directors in 2026. Feel free to reach out to Mei at mtsang@ocbar.org.

The OCBA Board of Directors welcomes seven members with terms beginning in 2025: Ryan S. Dean, partner at Umberg Zipser LLP, specializes in global patent and trademark prosecution; Eemaan Jalili, managing attorney of Jalili Law, PC, practices tax and business law; Christy G. Lea, partner at Knobbe Martens, resolves high-stakes patent and trade secret disputes at both the trial and appellate levels; Lisa D. Ramirez, co-founder and partner of U.S. Immigration Law Group, LLP, focuses on Department of Homeland Security I-9 investigations and audits; Eric Sather, attorney at Stegmeier, Gelbart, Schwartz & Benavente Law, handles the vast number of issues that arise from family law; Arjun Sivakumar, partner in Brown Rudnick’s Litigation & Arbitration Practice Group, focuses his practice on complex business litigation in state and federal courts and arbitration tribunals; Rebekah F. Thomas, partner at SNR Law Group, PC, practices labor and employment law; and the 2025 OCBA Young Lawyers Division Chair, Annie Nicholson, an associate at Haynes & Boone’s Orange County office.

Click here to see this year’s 2025 board of directors, section leaders, committee chairs, task forces, and Charitable Fund board.

To access the complete OCBA membership directory, please visit www.ocbar.org.