Admitted
1974, California; 1975, U.S. District Court, Central District of California; 1983, U.S. District Court, Southern District of California; 1985, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California; 1987, U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth C
Law School
University of California at Berkeley, J.D., 1974
Law School Graduation Year
1974
College
Claremont Men's College, B.A., cum laude, 1969; Occidental College, M.A., 1971
Memberships
Orange County, Federal (Founding Member, Orange County Chapter), American (Member: Section of Litigation; Forum Committee on Air and Space Law) and International (Member, Section on Business Law, Committee on Aeronautical Law) Bar Associations; State Bar of California.
Biographical
Exec. V.P. and General Counsel, The William Lyon Companies, 1989-1994. Publications/Presentations: Additional Insured Endorsements presented at Mealey's Construction Defects Conference in Marina del Rey, California, December, 1999; Additional Insured Endorsements presented at Mealey's Construction Defects Litigation & Coverage Conference, December 1998, in Marina del Rey, California; Liability of Developers and Contractors: If You Build It - They Will Sue presented at International Risk Management Institute, Inc. Conference, November 1998, in New Orleans, Louisiana; Co-authored paper and panel on Bases of Liability of Developers and Contractors for Defective Construction at 1998 Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association, Insurance Coverage for Defective Construction II and workshop on Identifying and Assessing Responsibility, June 1998, in Marina del Rey, California; Builders and Subcontractors Working Together -- Practical Approaches to Avoid Construction Defect Litigation presented at 14th Annual Real Estate Development Conference of the Building Industry Association, Orange County Chapter, March 1998, in Irvine, California; Construction Defect Litigation and Insurance Issues presented at 13th Annual Real Estate Development Conference of the Building Industry Association, Orange County Chapter, March 1997, in Irvine, California; Co-author: Liability of Developers and Contractors: If You Build It-They Will Sue presented at American Bar Association 1997 Annual Meeting, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association Tort & Insurance Practice Section program on Defective Construction: Crisis in Insurance, August 1997, in San Francisco, California; Liability of Developers and Contractors: If You Build It-They Will Sue presented at American Bar Association 1996 National CLE Program on Insurance Coverage for Defective Construction Litigation, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association Tort & Insurance Practice