{"id":4124,"date":"2015-02-09T17:31:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T00:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.aitkenlaw.com\/?p=4124"},"modified":"2015-02-09T17:31:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T00:31:44","slug":"ashleigh-aitken-ocba-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2015\/02\/09\/ashleigh-aitken-ocba-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashleigh Aitken Vows to Assist Veterans as 2015 President of the Orange County Bar Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Cover-January-2015-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cover January 2015\" width=\"190\" height=\"247\">On January 15, 2015, Ashleigh E. Aitken was sworn in as President of the Orange County Bar Association (OCBA) and featured on the cover of <em>Orange County Lawyer<\/em>.&nbsp; The OCBA<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>provides a wide variety of programs, services and opportunities for its attorney members, the judiciary and the community. The OCBA is one of the largest voluntary bar associations in California, with over 9,000 members.&nbsp; The reception dinner hosted over 775 people during which Aitken announced her President&#8217;s&nbsp;platform\u2014a pilot task force to assist Orange&nbsp;County veterans with a&nbsp;variety of pro bono legal needs. &#8220;About&nbsp;1\/3 of the homeless have served in&nbsp;the Armed Forces, and Orange&nbsp;County has&nbsp;over 3,500 homeless vets within its borders.&nbsp; This program is designed&nbsp;to assist veterans and military families with the legal services they richly deserve, but often do not&nbsp;have access to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aitken Aitken Cohn also congratulates Judge James J. Di Cesare who received OCBA\u2019s 2014 Franklin G. West Award. This highest of honors was presented to Judge Di Cesare for providing outstanding leadership, professionalism and compassion in serving the client community.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/10685483_911993662166738_3513160664391042327_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"10685483_911993662166738_3513160664391042327_n\" width=\"301\" height=\"200\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4126\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/10377433_911994038833367_4315153105292896781_n-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"10377433_911994038833367_4315153105292896781_n\" width=\"302\" height=\"200\"><br \/>\n<em>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Ashleigh gets sworn in by Hon. Lon Hurwitz &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Hon. Di Cesare receives the Franklin G. West Award<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocbar.org\/All-News\/News-View\/ArticleId\/1442\/January-2015-A-Taste-of-the-Year-Ahead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more of Ashleigh Aitken\u2019s presidential message on the Orange County Lawyer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 15, 2015, Ashleigh E. Aitken was sworn in as President of the Orange County Bar Association (OCBA) and featured on the cover of Orange County Lawyer.&nbsp; The OCBA&nbsp;provides a wide variety of programs, services and opportunities for its attorney members, the judiciary and the community. The OCBA is one of the largest voluntary&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2015\/02\/09\/ashleigh-aitken-ocba-president\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,12,24],"tags":[69,97,106,123,355,553,558,580,638,843],"class_list":["post-4124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-awards","category-blog","category-news","tag-aitken","tag-ashleigh","tag-attorney","tag-award","tag-feature","tag-oc-lawyer","tag-ocba","tag-orange-county-bar-association","tag-president","tag-women"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}