Dina Tecimer, partner with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, was unanimously elected to serve as the Chair of the Board of Trustees for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Southern California & Nevada Chapter. Dina has been active with the Chapter for decades.
Her mother, Brentwood resident Lailee Bakhtiar, MD, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 1984, when little was known about the disease, and there were no medications available to treat MS or to prevent the disease from advancing.
“Through it all, the MS Society was a consistent source of programs, services and specialists, and more importantly, a tangible source of hope,†said Tecimer.
Sadly, after a 24-year fight, Lailee succumbed to the disease in 2009.
Dina continues to be inspired by her mother’s grace and dignity in the face of MS. As the second woman to chair the Chapter’s Board of Trustees in its 64-year history, she is determined to accomplish the Society’s goal of raising $250 million by 2015.
Dina is a real estate attorney and partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP in Los Angeles where she focuses primarily on purchase, sales and lease transactions. She earned her law degree from Loyola University School of Law.
Please call 1.800.FIGHT.MS (344.4867) or visit www.nationalMSsociety.org/cal for more information about MS, the National MS Society and ways to join the movement to create a world free of this disease.
