BigLaw Honored by Hispanic Business Mag

Hispanic Business Magazine has come out with its list of the Top 100 Influentials and BigLaw practitioners and veterans are well represented.

The highlights, after the jump.

Obviously, the largest chunk of BigLaw is in the “Legal/Finance/Insurance” category. The BigLaw representatives include:

• Alberto Cardenas (Texas A&M BA ‘94, Texas Tech JD ‘98), a staff lawyer at Vinson & Elkins who is heavily involved in Texas politics, including a turn as general counsel for Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX) – who is a lawyer herself;
• Edward Lopez (Columbia BA, Harvard JA), Chief Legal Officer of Silicon Image, and a veteran of Morrison & Foerster and McCutchen Doyle (now Bingham McCutchen);
• Jose E Cil (Tulane BA ‘91, Penn JD ‘94), Vice President of Company Operations for Northern America, Burger King Corporation, who started his legal career doing bankruptcy and commercial litigation in the Miami office of Holland & Knight;
• Regina Montoya (Wellesley ‘75, Harvard JD ‘79), senior vice president and general counsel of Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, who was a partner at Akin Gump; and
• Stephen Zack (Florida BA ‘69, JD ‘71), a litigator at Boies Schiller and administrative partner of the firm’s Miami office.

In the Judges category, we have

• Christine Arguello (Colorado BS ‘77, Harvard JD ‘80), a judge in the District of Colorado, who lateralled into Holland & Hart and made partner. A Clinton appointment, she was reporedly considered for the Supreme Court seat Sotomayor just took.

In corporate, we found

• Jonathan Avila (Yale BA ‘79, Harvard JD ‘84), Vice President, Counsel, Chief Privacy Officer, The Walt Disney Company and President of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, who was an associate at Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles and clerked for Eugene Davis on the Fifth Circuit; and
• Javier Avitia (Harvard JD ‘87), a colleague of Avila, who has worked in “private practice with some of Los Angeles’ [sic] preeminent law firms,” which we’ll snootily assume means BigLaw of some form or another.

Congratulations to all the nominees! (Although we’re a little leery of that styling… “Top Influentials”? Unlike Spanish, English doesn’t presume a noun as the object of an adjective, so we’ll chalk it up to translation issues)

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