{"id":331471,"date":"2026-05-25T10:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/331471\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T10:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:03:12","slug":"oc50-2026-camille-vasquez-orange-county-business-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/331471\/","title":{"rendered":"OC50 2026: CAMILLE VASQUEZ &#8211; Orange County Business Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANAGING PARTNER, ORANGE COUNTY <\/p>\n<p>SHEPPARD MULLEN RICHTER &amp; HAMPTON<\/p>\n<p>WHY: Became internationally famous as the winning attorney for movie star Johnny Depp in his 2022 lawsuit against Amber Heard. Now represents corporate clients such as PepsiCo, Korean Air and Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>IN THE NEWS: In April, promoted to Managing Partner, Orange County for Sheppard Mullen Richter &amp; Hampton, the third biggest law firm in Orange County.<\/p>\n<p>NOTABLE: Mother Marilia came to the U.S. as a political refugee from Cuba while father Leonel, a native of Colombia, arrived on a student visa in the late 1960s. Family often spent a week or two every month at the Anaheim Hilton Hotel Towers where her father was the resident manager who was required to be available 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>IN HER WORDS: She initially advised Depp not to sue Heard for libel. \u201cBut this was something that was bothering him, the accusations that he had been abusive towards his ex-wife. He asked me a question that I\u2019ll never forget, which is, `Have you ever been accused of something that you didn\u2019t do?\u2019 And I thought about that, and I had to answer honestly, no. And he said, `Talk to me once you have.\u2019 He wanted his reputation back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-149624 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SR_OC50_badge-1-300x266.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANAGING PARTNER, ORANGE COUNTY SHEPPARD MULLEN RICHTER &amp; HAMPTON WHY: Became internationally famous as the winning attorney for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-331471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}