I am pleased to announce that I will be a member of the Board of Governors of Consumer Attorneys of California ("CAOC") for 2009.  I am looking forward to the opportunity to meet and work with attorneys from across California.  CAOC provides a mechanism for aggregating the collective voices of plaintiffs and their counsel.  That aggregation provides an opportunity to be heard by the the public and its elected representatives in a way that would be all but impossible otherwise.