Attorney of the Month Partner of the Month Law Firm Spotlight Alan Diamante Annette Mijanovic Robert Simon on Justice HQKurt Maahs Timothy Tonkin Attorney Phillips Law Group, P.C. (619) 252-4829 kurtm@phillipslaw.com timt@phillipslaw.com Attorney Phillips Law Group, P.C. Attorney Phillips Law Group, P.C. Arizona Referral & Co-Counsel Relationships ONE OF ARIZONA’S LARGEST CONSUMER LAW FIRMS Since 1993. Over 145,000 Clients Served. Phoenix, Tucson and all of Arizona. (800)706-3000 Text Je rey with any Arizona Law questions. Generous Referral Fees Paid.T his issue, we welcome back famil- iar faces and introduce you to new ones! You’ve known Alan Diamante as the top source for the latest news in immi- gration law since the very first issue of the magazine. Now he returns as our es- teemed Attorney of the Month, sharing the root of his passion for this specialty of law, as well as the people he serves. 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ATTORNEY AT LAW MAGAZINE · LOS ANGELES · VOL. 5 NO. 5 4TABLE OF Contents 16 7 Annette Mijanovic Partner of the Month 13 Two Ways to Utilize LinkedIn as a Marketing Tool for Your Law Firm By Dimple Dang 14 What American Bandstand Teaches us About Image By Trent Clark 15 Five Ways to Reconnect to Career Passion By Ellen Cohen 16 Alan Diamante Attorney of the Month 22 Put in on the Card: The New Technologies for Accepting Payments By Steve Martino 23 The Whistleblower Laws Available to Employees on a Federal and State Level By Stephen Danz and Navid Kanani 24 Robert Simon on Justice HQ Law Firm Spotlight SPECIAL SECTIONS 26 Out on the Town 28 Talk on the Town AttorneyAtLawMagazine.com 5Does your firm standout from the crowd? SUBMIT YOUR FIRM FOR NEXT ISSUE’S LAW FIRM OF THE MONTH SUBMIT NOMINATIONS AT WWW.ATTORNEYATLAWMAGAZINE.COM/NOMINATE/Partner of the Month Annette Mijanovic Her Happy Place Written by Sarah Torres Photographed by Hugh Williams AttorneyAtLawMagazine.com 7ATTORNEY AT LAW MAGAZINE · LOS ANGELES · VOL. 5 NO. 5 8F or many attorneys, the law firm is simply a place to prac- tice their profession. For Annette Mijanovic, it’s a place to call home. Mijanovic, a recently named partner at Haight Brown & Bonesteel, has never practiced at any other firm and plans to stay put indefinitely. But that doesn’t mean she has her feet up on the coffee table. “I’ve never been one who enjoys the easy work,” says Mijanovic, whose pendulum of cases swings between business litigation, product liability and transportation law. “The folks who trained me did not al- low me to take any easy roads here at the firm.” Those folks were the three partners at Haight she worked for as a summer associate at the firm after her first year of law school. And the disciplines she practices now were theirs. “When I came in I had very little say about the types of projects I did,” Mijan- ovic says. “I did what was given to me.” At the time, Haight didn’t have a formal program for summer associates—Mijan- ovic had simply been referred by an attor- ney who worked there—so when summer was over and it was time to go back to law school, she approached one of the senior partners. “I said, ‘I start back at school on Mon- day, so I’ll only be coming in on Tuesdays and Thursdays now,’ and the partner said, ‘OK,’” she explains. “So I just kept work- ing, part time, while I was in school. Twelve years later, they still haven’t gotten rid of me!” Learning to love what came her way these years, she believes, is what made her grow as an attorney. That and high expectations from the three main partners, who are known to be the most demanding in the firm. “It was a lot of trial by fire,” she says. “They trained me not to take the easy way out. They trained me to want to push harder on every- thing. They trained me to believe the practice of law is a true profes- sion and it’s a privilege to be part of this profession. “They gave me extraordinary opportunities very early,” she adds. “Most folks would not have recognized them as opportunities; they would have seen them as challenges that could not be overcome. I re- ally tried to see everything the firm gave me as an opportunity.” Two of those opportunities came in the form of letting her try two cases by herself as a third-year —first as a defense attorney in a truck- “I’ve never been one who enjoys the easy work,” says Mijanovic, whose pendulum of cases swings between business litigation, product liability and transportation law. “The folks who trained me did not allow me to take any easy roads here at the firm.” AttorneyAtLawMagazine.com 9Next >