Angela S. Haskins is a civil litigator and partner at Baker, Keener & Nahra, LLP.  Ms. Haskins specializes in the defense of physicians as well as other medical and healthcare personnel and facilities. Ms. Haskins began her legal career as a secretary and paralegal for a plaintiffs’ product’s liability firm in Ohio while attending undergraduate courses at The Ohio State University. She continued her legal career as a Case Administrator and the first non-lawyer Director for the Center for Mediation at the American Arbitration Association while attending evening classes at Southwestern University School of Law. She then became a principal at ADR International, an alternative dispute resolution marketing consultancy, where she spent five years before joining the litigation ranks. Ms. Haskins has been a WLALA member for fourteen years and has served on the Board of Governors for twelve years during which time she chaired the Membership; Business Development; and Federal Nominations Committees, as well as served as the Public Relations Liaison and spent two years providing WLALA members as speakers to a variety of community groups and organizations. When serving as a Member at Large, Ms. Haskins served on the Litigators Forum Planning Committee for several years and assisted with the planning and execution of many of the summer fundraisers. Ms. Haskins is also an ardent supporter of the Downtown Women’s Center and Break the Cycle.

Tanya Forsheit is a Partner with InfoLawGroup LLP.  She founded InfoLawGroup in 2009 after 12 years as a litigator and privacy/data security counselor at Proskauer Rose, where, most recently, she was Co-Chair of the Privacy and Data Security group.  In 2009, Tanya was named one of the Los Angeles Daily Journal’s Top 100 women litigators in California.  Certified as an information privacy professional by the IAPP, Tanya works with clients to address legal requirements and best practices for protection of customer and employee information.   Ms. Forsheit is a 1997 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was a Senior Editor of the Journal of International Economic Law; she graduated, cum laude, from Duke University in 1994.  Ms. Forsheit was WLALA First Vice President in 2009-2010, Second Vice President in 2008-2009, Communications Officer in 2007-2008, and Co-Chair of the Financial Development Committee of the WLALA Board of Governors in 2006-2007.  She is married to Reg King, an engineer, and is the mother of a seven year-old son.

Ruth D. Kahn is a partner at Steptoe & Johnson LLP where she specializes in the defense of complex civil litigation and toxic tort litigation. Ms. Kahn is actively involved with a variety of matters arising from the use of industrial chemicals in occupational settings to the release of contaminants to the environment. She is experienced in analyzing the effects of, and liability for, an incident, and in quantifying damages. She has been identified by the Daily Journal Corporation as one of the Top Women Litigators in California.  Ms. Kahn is a respected negotiator. She routinely handles hearings and trials in state and federal courts. Ms. Kahn obtained a B.S. from the University of Colorado and her J.D. from Case Western Reserve University. She has been a member of WLALA since the early 1990s and has served on the Board of Governors since 2006.  Last year, Ms. Kahn served as the Communications Officer of WLALA>  She is married to Gerald Wells and has a nine year old son.

Susan is a partner in Reed Smith's Los Angeles office and is a member of the firm's Financial Industry Group. She has extensive experience representing major banks, financial institutions, private equity funds and hedge funds in corporate lending transactions. She frequently advises clients in connection with syndicated credit facilities, leveraged acquisition financings, cross border loans, asset-based loans, investment grade credit facilities, debtor-in-possession credit facilities, and real estate financings. She often writes and speaks on topics relating to financial transactions, and recently launched Reed Smith’s Lending Law Report, a blog on corporate finance (http://www.lendinglawreport.com). Ms. Alker has a JD from the UCLA School of Law and an MBA from California State University. Upon graduating from law school, she clerked for The Hon. Christina A. Snyder, United States District Court for the Central District of California. She has served on WLALA’s Board of Governors since 2004.

Anne Tremblay is an Assistant Supervising Attorney in the LA City Attorney's Gang Prosecution and Prevention Section. Anne has been a Deputy City Attorney since 2002. Prior to joining the City Attorney's office, she spent six years as Deputy District Attorney for the County of Orange. In November of 2007, Anne received the Los Angeles Police Commission's Distinguished Service Medal for her work on a multi-agency anti-gang project in South Los Angeles.

Jennifer S. Romano is a civil litigator and partner at Crowell & Moring in Los Angeles.  Her practice focuses on unfair competition and consumer class action matters representing major retailers, internet companies, financial and professional service firms. She has been a member of  WLALA since 2004 and was named by the Los Angeles Daily Journal in 2009 as one of the Top Women Litigators in California.