Costa Mesa attorney elected to county bar association

Greg Risling

A Balboa Island resident has been elected secretary of the Orange County

Bar Assn., a term that requires a four-year commitment.

Robert Gerard, a partner with a Costa Mesa law firm, also will serve in

the other three executive positions with the association -- treasurer,

president-elect and president -- in the three following years,

respectively.

“I congratulate Robert on winning his election as secretary of the bar

association and look forward to working with him as a member of the

executive committee in the years ahead,” said Donald Gray, the

association’s president. “His election to secretary is a testament to his

many years of dedicated and outstanding service to the legal profession.”

Gerard graduated from the University of San Diego School of Law, where he

served as an editor of the San Diego Law Review. His expertise is mainly

in labor and employment litigation, representing clients who claim

wrongful termination, sexual harassment and discrimination.

He also serves on the board of directors of the Orange County Marine

Institute and the bar association’s judiciary committee.

“We’re extremely pleased that one of our colleagues was elected to this

position by other lawyers in the community,” said Henry Stiepel, managing

partner of the firm where Gerard works. “He has spent more than 10 years

deeply involved with the bar association and brings experience and

dedication to the position.”