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Westwood Lawyer Joins Cancer Foundation Board

Linda Miller Savitt will serve on the Jonsson Cancer Foundation board of directors for three years

This month, Westwood resident Linda Miller Savitt was one of four people to join the board of directors of the Jonsson Cancer Foundation, the branch of UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center dedicated to fundraising.  

Savitt was motivated to become involved with the center in part because of her family's experience:  Her father was treated for melanoma there. "I felt that the care they had provided was exceptional," she said by phone.  Her parents lived in Westwood for over 40 years; she has lived in the village for 25.

"We are pleased to welcome these four outstanding community leaders to the Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation board of directors," said Judith C. Gasson, the cancer center’s director and a professor of medicine and biological chemistry, in a press release. "We appreciate the commitment of Alan Berro, Mary Anne Keshen, Linda Miller Savitt and Clare Suomi to raising funds to hasten discoveries and provide more effective therapies for cancer patients everywhere."

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As stated in the press release, "Linda Miller Savitt is an attorney and partner at Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt, LLP and the immediate past president of the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel, a professional organization for civil defense lawyers in seven southern California counties. Savitt, a UCLA alumna, is an advocate level member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. In 2012, Savitt was named one of the top 50 women litigators in California by the Los Angeles Daily Journal and has repeatedly been named one of the state’s top labor and employment lawyers."

During her three-year term as board member, Savitt said she hopes "to be a meaningful participant, to raise money, and to spread the word about all the good things that the Jonsson Cancer Center does."  

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