Admitted
1981, District of Columbia; 1986, California
Law School
Harvard University, J.D., 1981
Law School Graduation Year
1981
College
Brown University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1978; Georgetown University
Memberships
State Bar of California; The District of Columbia Bar; Orange County, American (Member, Section of Litigation, 2001—; Council; Member, Civil Trial Practice Standards Task Force, 2003—; Co-Chair, Woman Advocate Committee, 1998-2000; Co-Chair, 1993 Conference on the Woman Advocate) and Federal-Orange County Chapter (President-Elect, 2003—; Secretary, 2002-2003; Board of Directors, 2001—) Bar Associations; Association of Business Trial Lawyers (Board of Governors, Orange County Chapter, 1997-2000).
Biographical
Phi Beta Kappa. Law Clerk to Judge Catherine B. Kelly, D.C. Court of Appeals, 1981-1982. Author: Everybody's Doing It-But Who Should Be? Standing to Make a Disqualification Motion Based on an Attorney's Representation of a Client with Interests Adverse to Those of a Former Client, 6 University of Puget Sound Law Review 205, Spring, 1983. Co-Editor: The Woman Advocate (1996). Co-Author: Can Local Court Rules Rescue Civility? 10 California Litigation 18 (Spring 1997); Dealing with California's Anti-Slapp Law ABTL Report October 2001.