Admitted
1987, California and U.S. District Court, Northern District of California; 1989, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1990, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California; 1998, U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
Santa Clara University School of Law, J.D., 1986
Law School Graduation Year
1986
College
Brandeis University, B.A., with honors/cum laude, 1982
Memberships
San Francisco (Member: Appellate Courts Section; MCLE Sub-Committee), Contra Costa County (Member, Program Director, Appellate Section, 1993-1995; President, Appellate Section, 1995-1996, 2000—; Member, Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Committee, 1995-1996; Member, Social/Education Committee, 1997—), Eastern Alameda County, Santa Clara County and American (Member, Sections on: Antitrust Law; Real Property, Probate and Trust Law) Bar Associations; State Bar of California.
Biographical
Associate Editor, Santa Clara Law Review, Vol. 26, 1985-1986. Listed in, Who's Who in American Law, Ninth Ed., 1996-1997, Tenth Ed., 1998-1999, Eleventh Ed., 2000-2001. Author: Comment, Judicial Misapplication of State of Mind Discovery in Media Libel Cases, 26 Santa Clara Law Review No. 643, 1986. Judicial Extern to Associate Justice William A. Newsom, California First District Court of Appeals, 1984 and 1985. Author: Recent Developments in ... Appellate Law: Both State and Federal Appellate Courts Tighten their Jurisdictional Requirements, 6 Contra Costa Lawyer, No. 8, September 1993 at 22; Handling Recycling Cases on Appeal: Rancho Mirage and Beyond, Refuse News, May 1995; The Practitioner; Lack of Deference: Examining the Ways Cities May Take Official Action, San Francisco, Los Angeles Daily Journal, p.7, June 19, 1995. Co-Author, A Procedural Roadmap to Civil and Criminal Appeals, 9 Contra Costa Lawyer, No. 2, February 1996 at 5. (Certified Specialist, Appellate Law, The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization)