Admitted
1980, California Supreme Court and U.S. District Court, Northern District of California; 1982, U.S. District Court, Central District of California; 1985, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit and U.S. District Court, Southern District of California; 1993,
Law School
Hastings College of Law, University of California, J.D., 1980
Law School Graduation Year
1980
College
Stanford University, A.B., with distinction, 1977
Memberships
State Bar of California (Chairperson, Bar Committee on Federal Courts, 1987-1988).
Biographical
Author: Commencing and Removing Actions to Federal Court, 1986; Doe Defendants and Federal Removal Jurisdiction, 5 California Lawyer No. 9, September, 1985. Co-Author: Federal Practice Guide: Federal Civil Procedure Before Trial, Rutter Group, 2003 (3 volumes); California Legal Ethics, Rutter Group, 1999. Lecturer: Federal Jurisdiction, Rutter Group, 1984—; Federal Civil Procedure Developments, First. Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits Judge Workshops, 1986—. Lecturer, Orientation for Newly Appointed Federal Judges, Washington, D.C., 1990—. Instructor: Legal Writing and Research, Hastings College of the Law, 1981-1982; Mass Communications Law, San Francisco State University, 1986—; Mass Communications Law, 1986 and Speech Communication, Stanford University, 1976—; Federal Practice, University of San Francisco Law School, 1991-1997. Adjunct Professor, Civil Procedure and Constitutional Law, Hastings College of the Law, 1994—, Legal Reporting, UC Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism, 1996.