Ramon Rossi Lopez, founder and managing partner...

Ramon Rossi Lopez, founder and managing partner of Newport

Beach-based Lopez, Hodes, Restaino Milman and Skikos, was named “Top

Gun-Product Liability/Mass Tort Trial Attorney of the Year,” by the

Orange County Trial Lawyers Assn. ... David Raft, an attorney and

partner with Newport Beach-based national immigration law firm Hirson

Wexler and Perl, was elected vice-chairman of the Orange County Bar

Assn.’s Immigration Section. Raft will take office on Jan. 1 ...

Chandra Prough, who teaches second grade at Newport Coast Elementary

School, is one of 8,195 elementary and secondary school teachers

nationwide who achieved National Board Certification in 2003 ... Sage

Hill School in Newport Coast recently announced that Katrina

Redelsheimer from Newport Beach and Braden Barnett from Corona del

Mar were designated National Merit semifinalists. Sage Hill also

announced that Juliane Caillouette, Carlo Pappano, William

Seegmiller, all of Newport Beach, Edward Duesterberg, of Newport

Coast and Sam Fankuchen, of Corona del Mar, were designated as

National Merit commended ... Attorney James D. Daily of Newport

Beach’s Daily Law Group was awarded the Harbor Patrol Deputy of the

Year award for demonstrated commitment to the department and to unit

goals.

* NEIGHBORS spotlights achievements in the community. Please

direct noteworthy information to Luis Pena by fax at (949) 646-4170,

or send e-mail to [email protected].