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Erin Brockovich - Sacramento Press

March 5, 2010

Day at the Museum empowers, inspires

Close to 10,000 people gathered at the California Museum on Thursday for the first "Day at the Museum" to get a little bit of pampering and a lot of empowerment.

The star-studded event was part of first lady Maria Shriver's annual The Women's Conference in honor of Women's History Month. The day included exhibits, presentations, speeches and tours of the museum.

"Today is the most successful day [at the museum] in all of California's history," Shriver told the audience.

The day began early with a meet-and-greet session in the museum's lobby with Shriver, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, Speaker Emeritus Karen Bass, and other female legislators, mayors and district attorneys.

Erin Brockovich - LA Business Journal

Erin: Take 2

Brockovich back, taking roles in lawsuits

By ALEXA HYLAND

Los Angeles Business Journal Staff

Ten years ago this month, Erin Brockovich, a hitherto unknown legal assistant, was rocketed to fame when a certain movie premiered.

Over the following five years, she gave motivational speeches to universities, women’s organizations and the like about her experiences investigating contaminated drinking water in the Mojave Desert community of Hinkley. She wrote a book and did some television work, but then slowed down.

More recently, however, Brockovich has picked up the pace again. “I see myself becoming an enterprise,” Brockovich said.

She’s president of Brockovich Research & Consulting, a company she runs with a couple of assistants out of her Agoura Hills home. She advises people who believe they’ve been hurt by contamination by getting them connected with public agencies and lawyers, who pay her.

She also has popped up on TV commercials lately. That’s because she works as a consultant for New York personal injury and mass tort firm Weitz & Luxenberg, partly as a spokeswoman.

R7 Real Estate–A New Look Management Firm Launched

By John L. Seitz

Despite all the doom and gloom reflected in the overall economy these days, business still goes on and a new firm called R7 Real Estate has emerged on the scene last month with some very different approaches based upon the reality of the 2010 marketplace. R7 specializes in the third party management of commercial properties as well as commercial leasing and project/construction management, primarily in Beverly Hills and the Westside. Its aim is to protect the property owners’ assets in both good and bad times while at the same time helping these clients and their tenant weather the current economic challenges.