Catherine Denevi & Bonnie Keele at Silverbay
Special thanks to Vicky Glava for this wonderful picture!


My name is Catherine Denevi-Burris.
I live in Vista, California, USA with my husband Michael Burris,
our beautiful daughter, Josephine Livia, and our new son, Gino Joseph Denevi Burris.  We are a very happy family, partly due to the wonderful Boxers with whom we
share our lives. My husband works for Heartland Construction as a manager, and remodels very high end homes...boy has he seen marvelous places.  Of course we will never live in a place like those because we spend all our money on dogs and dog shows.
Our daughter is a future top handler, etc.  She is three, almost
four years old and runs all three of our Boxers...,
since we are keeping one out of our current litters. Of course, my hubby is the sainest of us all. 
I bought my first Boxer in 1995, she ended up looking
more like a miniature Great Dane.  Then I bought a gorgeous 
show dog that never got his testicles. 
By the time I graduated law school all I could think about
was getting my dream bitch..so I did, even before I took the bar.
In fact, I put the bar off for over a year, had two knee surgeries and
bought two duplexes (because no one would rent to me with 
all my dogs).
Finally I got around to taking the Bar a couple years after
graduation, didn't pass needless to say.  By then I was just to addicted to showing
Boxers, oh, and getting married and having a baby! 
Anyway, a champion bitch later and a great little girl and husband
(not necessarily in that order). 
I finally took the Bar again, mainly because I didn't have any
dogs to show and needed to start making money to finance a few
more Champions.
So, take a look at my hopefuls... and have as much fun with
your little rascals as I have with mine.
By the way, in case you didn't notice or know me personally,
all my dogs are named after Vodka. 

Update 6/6/04
After settling a major elder law case...right out of the gate, I bought a house in Oceanside, CA and converted it into an office.  I now am Managing Partner of Simon, Denevi & Musgrave, LLP.  I do Elder, Contract, and Tort Litigation, almost exclusively Plaintiff's work.  Some dog law (if you're the good guy, or dog.  HAHA) 
Also, I co-counsel in a great deal of business litigation 
with my partner Helane Simon.
Helane does Corporate, Commercial, and In-house business litigation for her father's large Manufacturing Company.  She hopes to begin specializing in appeal work for Women throughout the country who are serving life sentences for killing there abusers.  She also does some criminal work now, mainly for Rap singers.
Marjorie Musgrave does family law, but has recently moved to Georgia to take the BAR there and begin her career in Juvenile Law.
Harry Olsen, author of several Employment and Labor law books, rents a satellite office in our building.  Diane Olsavsky, LLM, also rents an office in our building.  She worked for the IRS for years and is now hanging out a shingle in Tax law and related issues.