[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 16566]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   HONORING RICHARD W. ``DICK'' ABBEY

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                           HON. MIKE THOMPSON

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, October 30, 2013

  Mr. THOMPSON of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize 
and honor Richard W. ``Dick'' Abbey, who, along with his law partners 
at Abbey, Weitzenberg, Warren & Emery, is a recipient of the Sonoma 
County Bar Association's 2013 Career of Distinction Award. This is the 
highest honor presented by the Association and it is, indeed, well 
deserved.
  Mr. Abbey has been a member of the law firm of Abbey, Weitzenberg, 
Warren & Emery since 1973. Over the course of those 40 years, he has 
specialized in real estate, commercial and corporate law as well as in 
financial institution litigation and transactions. In recent years he 
has focused on representing businesses within the wine industry.
  As a mediator, he has successfully achieved a number of simple and 
multi-party mediations that have involved a wide range of business and 
real estate matters.
  Mr. Abbey has consistently been recognized as a Northern California 
Super Lawyer. Super Lawyers is a rating service that selects 
outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained 
a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The 
selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, 
peer nominations and peer evaluations.
  Mr. Abbey has also been a member of the County Bar Association for 40 
years and served a term as president of the organization. He has also 
been a Professor of Law at Empire College of Law in Santa Rosa, a 
member of both the State Bar of California and the American Bar 
Association, President and Member of the Board of the Sonoma County 
Family YMCA and a Member of the Board of the Redwood Empire Food Bank.
  Mr. Speaker, Richard ``Dick'' Abbey has been an outstanding attorney 
in Sonoma County for 40 years. He is respected and held in high esteem 
by his peers, which is reflected in this honor he has received from the 
Sonoma County Bar Association. It is therefore appropriate that we 
honor him today.

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