Woodland Hills : Irish Law Unit Honors Longtime Jurist

Vincent Thorpe, a Woodland Hills attorney, has been awarded the 1995 Daniel O’Connell Award by the Los Angeles chapter of the Irish American Bar Assn.

The award, named after the 19th-Century Irish attorney who helped bring democracy to Ireland, is presented each year to a person of Irish heritage who makes a significant contribution to the legal profession, according to the association.

Thorpe, a senior partner of Thorpe & Thorpe, a Los Angeles business and litigation law firm, has been practicing law for 30 years. He started out as a deputy attorney general for the state handling anti-trust, consumer fraud and narcotics forfeiture cases. Later, he became assistant attorney general under then-Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk.

Thorpe has been an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School, an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Assn., and a judge pro tem for Los Angeles Municipal Court. He served as an arbitrator on law-firm disputes for the Los Angeles County Bar Assn. He graduated from Loyola Marymount University and received his law degree from Loyola Law School.