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01-21-09 | Simi Valley Chamber To Honor Board Chairs - Local businesses, individuals will be recognized at Business Achievement Luncheon

SIMI VALLEY, Calif.—Outgoing Board Chair Karen Gabler, Esq., a partner at Ventura County law firm Nordman Cormany Hair & Compton LLP, will be honored along with other outstanding businesses and community leaders at the annual Simi Valley Chamber of Commerce Business Achievement Luncheon. The event is at 11:30 a.m., Jan. 30, at the Grand Vista Hotel, 999 Enchanted Way, Simi Valley.

“It has been an honor and tremendously rewarding to work side by side with Chamber members, volunteers and staff to help strengthen our community’s economic vitality and quality. The Chamber’s resources and support of business create a lasting, positive impact on all aspects of our community,” Gabler said.

Other honorees include incoming 2009 Board Chair Larry Hibbler, owner and president of Simi Valley Ford; Dee Dee Cavanaugh, Business Person of the Year; and Simi Valley Hospital, Business of the Year. At the luncheon, the Strathearn Lifetime Achievement Award will be awarded and the Chamber’s new officers and directors will be installed.

Tickets for the luncheon are $40. To register, contact Michele Bennett at (805) 526-3900 x223 or e-mail mbennett@simichamber.org.

Gabler concentrates her practice in the representation of management clients in all aspects of employment advice and litigation. She conducts workplace audits and training for managers and employees in employment policies and practices such as wage and hour issues, leaves of absence, harassment, hiring and firing, disabilities and employee discipline.

Gabler has served as an adjunct professor of employment law at the Pepperdine University School of Law. She was the 2008 chair of the Simi Valley Chamber of Commerce and is the 2009 chair of the Simi Valley Community Foundation. She is a member of the board of directors of United Way of Ventura County, the Western Ventura County Employer Advisory Council and the Simi Valley Hospital Foundation, and a past board member of the East Ventura County Employer Advisory Council, the Simi Valley Education Foundation and The Wellness Community Valley/Ventura. She has received several awards for her professional and community contributions. She earned her law degree from the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii, where she was managing editor and contributing author for the University of Hawaii Law Review.

For 70 years, Nordman Cormany Hair & Compton LLP attorneys have represented a variety of influential clients who have helped shape the Ventura County community. The firm provides legal services in business and corporate litigation, employment, real estate and land use, environmental law, oil and gas, administrative and local government law, business and commercial law, taxation, estate planning and intellectual property law. Clients include individuals, national and international corporations, small businesses, municipalities and public agencies. For more information, visit www.nchc.com.