Admitted
1978, California; 1980, District of Columbia
Law School
University of California at Los Angeles, J.D., 1978
Law School Graduation Year
1978
College
University of California at Davis, B.A., with highest honors, 1975
Memberships
Federal (Board Member, Los Angeles Chapter, 1997—) and American (Member, West Coast White Collar Crime Committee, 1998-2000; Vice-Chair, National White Collar Crime Committee, 2000-2002).
Biographical
Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif. Listed as one of the top trial lawyers in Southern California, Los Angeles Business Journal, February 8, 1999. Associate Editor, 1976-1977 and Editor-in-Chief, 1977-1978, UCLA Law Review. Law Clerk to: Justice Stanley Mosk, Supreme Court of the State of California, 1978-1979; Justice William H. Rehnquist, U.S. Supreme Court, 1979-1980. Assistant United States Attorney, Central District of California, 1983-1993 (Chief, Major Frauds Section, 1990-1993; Deputy Chief, Major Frauds Section, 1987-1990). Author: California's Energy Commission: Illusions of a One-Step Power Plant Siting Agency, 25 UCLA Law Review 1313, 1977; Articles on Search Warrants, Arrest Warrants, Vagrancy Laws and Overruling, published in Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (L. Levy & K. Karst, 1985). Co-Author, Forward and Afterward, Toward a Center For State and Local Legal Advocacy, 31 Catholic University Law Review, 367 and 502 (1982). Board Member: Western Center on Law and Poverty, 1997—; Office of the Public Counsel, 1998—.