A Special Update from Walzer Melcher & Yoda LLP

Left to Right: Ashley W. Edwards, Ashley K. Quan, Peter M. Walzer, Christopher C. Melcher, Steven K. Yoda, Cynthia J. Ponce, & Ryan D. Wedeking

TEAM UPDATES

WMY Welcomes

Danielle Sze

We are excited to welcome Danielle Sze to WMY.

Danielle is a graduate of the UCLA School of Law and a former clerk for Justice Melissa A. Long of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. WMY is her first job after taking the bar exam this past summer. Outside of work, she spends her time looking up new recipes to try, mediating arguments between her cockatiel and dog, and bouldering.

WMY Welcomes

Jennifer Weiss

We are excited to welcome Jennifer Weiss to WMY. Jennifer graduated with her Juris Doctorate from UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings).

With an interest in family law, Jennifer had the opportunity during law school to extern for the Domestic Violence Unit of the District Attorney’s Office in San Francisco, the Family Violence Section of Bay Area Legal Aid, and the Unified Family Court of the San Francisco Superior Court. She was also a law clerk at DeLacey, Riebel & Shindell. Before law school, Jennifer pursued a career in biological archaeology.

In her free time, Jenny likes to read, bake, hang out with friends, and watch a lot of Bravo.

Ashley K. Quan

Appointed as Co-Chair of BHBA FLEXCOM

We are proud to share that associate Ashley K. Quan has been appointed as Co-Chair of the Beverly Hills Bar Association Family Law Executive Committee. Ashley previously served as the Secretary. Go Ashley!

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

For another consecutive year, the firm has been selected to Band 1 for Chambers & Partners High Net Worth Guide. Peter M. Walzer and Christopher C. Melcher were individually selected to Band 1 and Steven K. Yoda was selected to Band 2.

The firm has been selected to Best Lawyers in America. Peter M. Walzer, Christopher C. Melcher, and Steven K. Yoda were individually recognized and Ryan D. Wedeking was selected as a "One to Watch".

ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS

Before the Sun Sets, Look for a New Horizon

by Peter M. Walzer

December 1944: “It’s raining and sleeting like crazy, and I’m stuck in my foxhole, and I can’t come up because there are Germans all over the place. And suddenly, these huge tiger tanks start rumbling by. It was just this awful combination of bone-chilling cold and pure dread. There was no question in my mind I was going to die that night. I was just waiting to get ground down and become part of the clay in that hole. I also think of it as a great moment in my life. Because it gave me a tremendous sense of perspective. Everything since then, every moment I’ve lived, everything I’ve experienced, has been pure gravy.”

Excerpt from ABA Voice of Experience.