Tanya L. Forsheit is a Founding Partner of InfoLawGroup LLP and a former partner with Proskauer, where she was Co-Chair of that firm’s Privacy and Data Security practice group.  In 2009, Ms. Forsheit was named one of the Los Angeles Daily Journal’s Top 100 women litigators in California. Certified as an information privacy professional by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (“IAPP”), she works with clients to address legal requirements and best practices for protection of customer and employee information.  Ms. Forsheit advises companies, from multinationals to startups, on all aspects of privacy and data security compliance, contracts, policies and procedures (including complex regulatory schemes such as HIPAA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley).  She negotiates cloud computing arrangements on behalf of enterprise customers, has advised on dozens of data security breaches, and represents organizations in FTC investigations involving privacy and data security.  Ms. Forsheit brings her litigation experience and cloud computing and social media knowledge to bear in counseling clients on thorny issues in data management, information protection, and e-discovery. 

Ms. Forsheit also has extensive experience handling complex commercial and appellate litigation for corporate and individual clients before federal and state courts at all levels. Her commercial litigation experience includes defense of a wide variety of commercial disputes including breach of contract, business tort, trademark infringement, fraud, employment, and antitrust claims, as well as the prosecution of claims for cybersquatting, copyright infringement, unfair competition, and misappropriation of trade secrets.  Ms. Forsheit was part of the team that successfully petitioned the United States Supreme Court to grant certiorari, and obtained a landmark decision, in Johnson v. California, 125 S. Ct. 1141 (2005), resulting in a historic settlement with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation calling for the desegregation of California's prison system.

Ms. Forsheit is a member of the Bar of the State of California, and is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Fourth Circuits, and the United States District Courts for the Central, Northern, and Southern Districts of California.  

Ms. Forsheit sits on the Education Advisory Board of the IAPP and is co-chair of the IAPP’s Los Angeles KnowledgeNet.  She is a frequent writer and speaker, having presented at numerous America Bar Association and Practising Law Institute conferences, as well as the renowned annual RSA information security conference.  She is a well-known blogger at www.infolawgroup.com in the privacy and data security space, and has appeared on national and local television news programs, including Fox News and KTTV Channel 11, to address recent developments in this rapidly evolving legal area.

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 President-Elect in 2010-2011; 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 an eight 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 cases in state and federal courts.  She represents clients in a variety of matters ranging from the use of industrial chemicals in occupational settings to the release of contaminants into the environment.  She is experienced in analyzing the effects of, and liability for, an incident, and in quantifying damages.  She is particularly interested in cases where the law and science intersect and is a respected negotiator and trial lawyer.  She also serves as pro bono counsel for Bet Tzedek Legal Services where she represents Holocaust Survivors obtain reparations from the German Government.  For the last five out of six years, the Daily Journal Corporation has identified Ms. Kahn as one of the Top Women Litigators in California.  Ms. Kahn obtained her B.S. from the University of Colorado (at Boulder) 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 First Vice President of WLALA. She is married to Gerald Wells and has an eleven year old son.

Anne C. Tremblay is an assistant city attorney for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office where she supervises the Anti-Gang Section.  Previously, Ms. Tremblay was a deputy city attorney assigned as a community prosecutor for the Los Angeles Police Department’s Newton Area.  Before joining the City, she spent six years as deputy district attorney for the County of Orange. There she practiced in the superior and juvenile courts. In 2007, she was awarded the Los Angeles Police Commission’s Distinguished Service Medal for her work abating a notorious gang nuisance location in South Los Angeles. Ms. Tremblay is the author of Beyond Community Policing and provides training on public safety related issues for community based organizations and community developers.  Ms. Tremblay holds a JD from EmoryUniversity, School of Law and a B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley. She was the WLALA Secretary/Treasurer in 2010-11 and has served on the WLALA Board of Governors since 2007.

Kimberly R. Arnal is a partner with Black, Compean, Hall & Eli.  Her practice focuses on insurance coverage and contractual indemnity matters with an emphasis on third-party pollution liability, products liability, general liability, errors & omissions, insurance guaranty association law and coverage for construction defect claims.  She frequently provides her clients with coverage opinions regarding their rights or obligations under third-party liability policies.  She also represents carriers and policy holders in litigated matters including declaratory relief actions, equitable contribution matters, bad faith litigation and related appeals.  She has extensive experience litigating general liability policies, insurance guaranty association law and contractual indemnity issues.  In addition to her litigation and appellate practice, Ms. Arnal frequently speaks on issues pertaining to insurance law and indemnity matters.  She is an Assisting Editor of the 2010 ABA-TIPS Reference Handbook on the Comprehensive General Liability Policy.  She received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and her J.D. from Hastings College of Law.  Ms. Arnal has served on the WLALA Board of Governors since 2007.  She is married to René Daley and is the mother of an eight-year old son and a three-year old daughter.

Stacy Horth-Neubert is counsel in Skadden's Litigation Group.  Ms. Horth-Neubert’s practice involves a broad spectrum of complex commercial litigation, including class actions; securities, antitrust, unfair business practices, contracts, sports and entertainment litigation; international arbitration; and administrative appeals.  Recently, she has had an active role in representing priceline.com, a provider of online travel services, in more than 90 cases in 28 states brought by states, counties and cities, as well as related consumer class actions, concerning the application of local hotel occupancy tax to service charges on reservations made through online travel companies.  Ms. Horth-Neubert also serves as coordinator of the pro bono efforts in Skadden’s Los Angeles office.  In that capacity, she has been instrumental in facilitating, coordinating and participating in numerous pro bono projects at the firm, including organizing attorney training and staffing of legal clinics and phone trees for disaster victims, and is overseeing the Los Angeles office’s work as a coordinating law firm for the reparations program of Bet Tzedek’s Holocaust Services Project.  Ms. Horth-Neubert also has represented clients pro bono in areas such as internal investigations, civil and educational rights, and federal and state benefits; has acted as guardian ad litem; and is past president of the board for a private Los Angeles nonprofit preschool.  For her pro bono work, Ms. Horth-Neubert was named a winner of the California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year Awards (CLAY) by California Lawyer magazine, and has received the ACLU of Southern California Pro Bono Advocacy Award.  Ms. Horth-Neubert has served on the WLALA Board of Governors since 2009.