MARY-CHRISTINE SUNGAILA
PARTNER
COMPLEX APPELLATE LITIGATION
WHY: Partner in the Newport Beach office of Complex Appellate Litigation Group LLP and a professor in Space Law and Policy at LMU Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.
IN THE NEWS: Teaches only course on space law in Southern California at LMU Loyola Law School.
NOTABLE: Two-time recipient of the California Lawyer of the Year (CLAY) Award; OC Women Lawyers Association Attorney of the Year, inaugural recipient of OC Hispanic Bar’s Judge Frances Munoz award and one of the Daily Journal’s Top 100 women lawyers in California for 16 years running. Repeat nominee for the OCBJ’s Women in Business and Innovator of the Year Awards. Came to OC in 1980.
QUOTABLE: “As a new commercial space era dawns, Southern California and Orange County remain at the center of space innovation… All this activity raises the question: what laws govern? And what should the rules be for new activities like in-space manufacturing, space mining or lunar bases and settlements?”—Leader Board
