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FN:Cyndie M. Chang
TEL;WORK:+1 213 689 7432
TEL;TYPE=WORK,FAX:+1 213 403 5937
EMAIL;WORK;PREF:cmchang@duanemorris.com
N:Chang, Cyndie M.
TITLE:Partner
ORG:Duane Morris LLP
ADR;INTL;WORK;PARCEL;POSTAL:;;Duane Morris LLP | Suite 3100 | 865 South Figueroa Street | Los Angeles, CA  90017-5450 | USA | 
URL;WORK:http://www.duanemorris.com
NOTE;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE: Cyndie M. Chang litigates complex business and commercial disputes involving contracts, unfair competition, trademark, trade secrets, products liability, entertainment and real estate law. Ms. Chang is also a licensed California Real Estate Broker. In addition, she has handled insurance matters involving large, multimillion-dollar environmental, asbestos and toxic tort continuing injury claims.

Ms. Chang has represented many businesses, including Fortune 500 companies, and has obtained favorable results in trial and arbitration.  Recently, Ms. Chang was named the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association ("NAPABA") 2010 "Best Lawyers under 40," awarded to 20 lawyers across the country. She was also named a 2010 and 2011 "Rising Star" in Los Angeles Magazine's Super Lawyer Rising Star section, given to no more than 2.5% of attorneys in the state.

Currently, she is the Regional Governor of NAPABA for the Central District, Los Angeles, which encompasses ten minority interest bar organizations in Southern California. She is also the Executive Vice-President of the Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association ("SCCLA"). Ms. Chang has also participated in the American Bar Association's Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section ("TIPS") 2010 Leadership Academy, selected with a group of approximately 20 lawyers in the nation identified to be emerging bar leaders. Further, Ms. Chang has been appointed as the Vice-Chair of the ABA-TIPS Business Litigation Committee and a member of the Standing Committee on Diversity in the Profession. In addition, she is her firm's office Pro Bono Coordinator and a Fellow to the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity ("LCLD"). Ms. Chang previously served on the boards of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Los Angeles ("APABA"), the Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine Editorial Board and the State Bar Committee on Women in the Law. She also has continued involvement with the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles and the Southern California Business Litigation American Inn of Court. Ms. Chang has also been featured in the Los Angeles Business Journal, the Daily Journal and other legal publications.

Ms. Chang previously served as judicial extern to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Ms. Chang is a graduate of Loyola Law School, where she was a published Note and Comment Editor for the Entertainment Law Review, the Student Editor of the ABA Student Lawyer national magazine and a member of the National Moot Court Team and Scott Moot Court Honors Board. She previously was a member of the ABA Law Student Division Board of Governors, a liaison to the ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession and an elected officer of the Loyola Student Bar Association. Further, Ms. Chang is a graduate, with honors, of Johns Hopkins University and was awarded the Senior Leadership Award for her class and the Multicultural Student Affairs Award. She was elected into the academic honor societies of Pi Sigma Alpha for Political Science, Psi Chi for Psychology, and the Order of Omega. Ms. Chang served as the chair of the Inter-Asian Council, chair of Asian Awareness Month, and the convocation speaker for Black History Month. She also obtained the National Leadership Award in her sorority and the Louis Azrael Fellowship for writing excellence.

In the community, Ms. Chang serves on the Board of Directors for the Asian Pacific Community Fund ("APCF"), a non-profit organization that supports Asian Pacific Islander communities in need and generates funding for 29 affiliate agencies in Southern California. 

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