Karen Hewitt has been appointed partner-in-charge of the San Diego office of Jones Day, the law firm announced Monday.

Gordon & Rees partner Jeffrey D. Cawdrey has been named president of the San Diego Law Library Board of Trustees for one year.

The preservation group Save Our Heritage Organisation (SOHO) recently won a legal ruling it in its effort to stop the city from building a parking garage and adding a bypass bridge at Balboa Park.

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP has elected Dawn Hall Cauthen to the firm partnership, effective Jan. 1, 2012.

The law firm Stutz Artiano Shinoff & Holtz is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.