CLIFFORD & BROWN - Key Persons
Anthony L. Leggio is a Bakersfield native. He attended the University of the Pacific where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. After graduating With Distinction from McGeorge School of Law in 1977, he returned home to Bakersfield where the Leggio family has long had deep roots in the business community since the 1940's.
Upon joining the firm in 1977, Mr. Leggio was instrumental in developing the firm's business practice. From 1977 to 2001, the business practice of the firm under Mr. Leggio's direction grew steadily in diversification and expertise to meet the ever-expanding needs of its clients.
While Mr. Leggio's practice over the past thirty years has included a broad range of business transactional matters, he developed a reputation as a practical and astute business planner and corporate counsel. He served as counsel to numerous large businesses in both legal and business strategic planning and has handled many complex purchase and sales of businesses. His broad range of legal and business experience makes him uniquely qualified to assist businesses in navigating difficult issues.
In 2001, Mr. Leggio joined long-time client, Bolthouse Farms, Inc. as Vice-President/General Counsel. Mr. Leggio was involved with Bolthouse Farms' sale to a private equity firm in 2005.
As Of Counsel to the firm, he continues to be available to the firm, and its clients, in strategic business planning. In addition, he serves on the Board of many private businesses due to his unique combination of legal and business expertise.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Member of the First Presbyterian Church of Bakersfield
Beth A. Kuney has been a life-long resident of Bakersfield. She is a graduate of Highland High School where she excelled at tennis, debate, and academics. She attended Central College in Pella, Iowa from which she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in History in 1987. She then spent a year studying in a post graduate program at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland with the support of a Rotary International Scholarship which she applied for through the South Bakersfield Rotary Club. Thereafter, she enrolled at Hastings College of the Law and graduated in 1992.
Mrs. Kuney's practice includes business transactional matters (including mergers and acquisitions, business formation, oil and gas, and business dissolution.) and real property transactions.
Mrs. Kuney is an active member of the First Presbyterian Church of Bakersfield. She has served on the Board and as the Director for the Kern Community Tennis Association and on the Board for the American Cancer Society. She was active at Bakersfield High School serving on the Athletic Booster Club, the Parent, Teacher, Student Organization and as the Assistant Girls Varsity Tennis Coach.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Member of the State Bar of California
Donald C. Oldaker was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia where he attended St. Georges School before obtaining his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of British Columbia in 1980. While attending university Mr. Oldaker worked in the offshore subsea oil industry and later engaged in the drilling and operation of a number of oil wells in Texas, Oklahoma and California. Mr. Oldaker moved to Bakersfield in 1989 with a small oil operator and attended California Pacific School of Law from which he obtained his Juris Doctorate in 1993.
While attending law school Mr. Oldaker clerked for Noriega Alexander and Bradshaw, a local firm where he remained after being admitted to the State Bar of California in 1993 until joining Clifford & Brown in 2015. His current practice focuses on business and transactional matters, civil and business litigation, oil and gas and real property matters, agriculture, estate and property issues and appellate advocacy. Mr. Oldaker individually holds a BV rating with Martindale & Hubbell.
Mr. Oldaker is a member of the State Bar of California, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Southern, Central and Northern District of California, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Oldaker became a named Partner with Clifford and Brown June 1, 2019.
Patrick J. Osborn is a native having been born in Bakersfield. He is a third generation Bakersfield attorney. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973 from the University of California at Riverside and his Juris Doctorate from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 1977.
Upon his graduation from McGeorge, Mr. Osborn accepted a position with the firm. He has tried over 75 jury trials to a verdict in matters as varied as wrongful termination, product liability, real estate, professional negligence, dental professional negligence, and medical professional negligence. He is the attorney of record in numerous published Appellate Court opinions. He is licensed to practice law in California and is admitted to the United States District Court for the Eastern and Central Districts of California. Mr. Osborn is individually rated as an AV lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell.
Mr. Osborn is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and is a Certified Civil Trial Advocate in the National Board of Trial Advocacy and also is a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys, with a specialty in medical professional liability. He holds the rank of Advocate in the American Board of Trial Advocates and served as president, in 1999, of the San Joaquin Valley Chapter, where he has been an active participant in the "Masters in Trial" programs, including Masters in Trial and Trial Notebook Program. Mr. Osborn is also a member of the Association of Defense Counsel, the Defense Research Institute.
Mr. Osborn's community interests include active participation in wildlife conservation (through the Kern County Sportsman's Night and Ducks Unlimited where he has previously held positions at the local, state and national levels), previously serving on the advisory board of the YWCA and serving as an alternate for Assemblyman Tony Strickland on the Kern County Republican Central Committee. He is also a member of Houchin Blood Bank's 19 Gallon Club and on the Board of the Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Foundation.
Mr. Boyle is a partner in Clifford & Brown, with the longest tenure in the firm's business department. He was born in San Tomé, Venezuela. Mr. Boyle joined the firm in 1985, after practicing for seven years in the San Diego area.
Mr. Boyle previously served as President of the Probate Section for the Kern County Bar Association. He is a member of the State Bar of California, the Kern County Bar Association and the Christian Legal Society.
Winifred "Wendy" Thomson Hoss was born in Bakersfield, California to a family whose farming roots began four generations before, when her great-grandfather homesteaded farmland in Kern County in the late 1800's. Her childhood was spent on a farm which led to her education at grammar and high schools in the Arvin, California area and a love of all things rural, including horseback riding, which she still pursues. Continuing the agricultural and outdoor emphasis, she attended the University of California, Davis where she obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree (with honors) in 1976 and a law degree (Juris Doctor) in 1981.
Mrs. Hoss returned home to practice law with a small partnership, Darling, Maclin and Day. The firm name changed to Darling, Maclin and Thomson in 1985 when she became a partner. She taught Real Property Law at California State University, Bakersfield in 1985 and 1987. In 1996 she joined Clifford & Brown, as did her former remaining partner.
During her tenure as an attorney, she has been a member of Kern County Bar Association; the State Bar of California; Kern County Women Lawyers Association (President, 1985); District Board Member, Kern County Air Pollution District, 1986; Member, State Bar of California, Business Law Section, Agribusiness Committee, 1999-2001.
Mrs. Hoss has been active as a member or pro bono legal adviser over the years in the Victim Witness Auxiliary of Kern County, the Junior League of Bakersfield, the California Living Museum (CALM) Foundation, the Bakersfield Rotary Club, Cursillo and other activities through the Episcopal Church, and Kern Athletic Fencing Foundation.