Angela Zanin Featured In Pepperdine Caruso Law Article Honoring Italian-American Heritage Month
Pepperdine Caruso School of Law recently featured alum and Los Angeles Partner Angela Zanin in an article celebrating Italian-American Heritage Month, which is observed each year in October.
Los Angeles, Calif. (December 21, 2023) – Pepperdine Caruso School of Law recently featured alum and Los Angeles Partner Angela Zanin in an article celebrating Italian-American Heritage Month, which is observed each year in October.
Ms. Zanin, who earned her J.D. from Pepperdine Caruso Law in 2003, serves as president of the Italian American Lawyers Association (IALA) Los Angeles chapter.
As the law school’s article notes, Ms. Zanin’s family hails from the town of Asolo in the Veneto region of Italy, about an hour northwest of Venice, and some of her family members still reside there.
“My grandfather Armando, who served in World War II, was able to elevate his family out of poverty with the G.I. Bill,” Ms. Zanin recalled in the article. “After he served in WWII, going to war against his home country of Italy, he came back and was able to go to college and become an engineer.”
She further recounted how her family had to overcome intolerance from some in the U.S. toward those of Italian ancestry after World War II. This atmosphere of bigotry faced by Italian-Americans led, in part, to the formation of the IALA in 1977, she explained.
Ms. Zanin is a member of Lewis Brisbois’ Bad Faith Litigation, Insurance Coverage, Surety, and Italy Practices. She specializes in surety law, insurance guaranty association law, independent counsel disputes, first and third-party policies, and underlying claims related to wild fires, pollution, intellectual property, and construction defects.
Ms. Zanin studied in Milan, Italy in college and has continued to honor her Italian roots with her involvement with the Italian community in Los Angeles.
Read the full article here.