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COSTA MESA – Eight June 2003 law school graduates who have been working at Rutan & Tucker LLP as “pre-bar” associates since the summer have been notified that they passed the state Bar exam. They will become full associates of the firm upon being sworn in as members of the California Bar this month. The addition of the eight new associates brings Rutan & Tucker’s total attorney count to 138 in its two offices in Orange County and Silicon Valley. All eight will be based in the Orange County headquarters. They are: Jenny E. Carey, UCLA School of Law, who joins the firm’s Employment and Labor Section Christopher S. Cruz, Georgetown University Law Center, who joins the firm’s Trial Section Peter J. Howell, UCLA, who joins the Trial Section Gregory R. Jones, Georgetown, who joins the Trial Section Jennifer H. Kim, Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley, who joins the Real Estate Section Sy Nazif, University of California, Hastings College of the Law, Trial Section Lyndsy B. Rutherford, Georgetown, Public Law Section Rudy S. Salo, Georgetown, Public Law Section