Admitted
1980, California, U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of California, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court; 2001, Nevada and U.S. District Court, District of Nevada
Law School
Western State University, J.D., with scholastic merit, 1979
Law School Graduation Year
1979
College
University of California at Los Angeles, A.B., 1976
Memberships
Orange County (Member, Insurance Committee), Federal and American (Member, Tort and Insurance Practice Section) Bar Associations; State Bar of California; State Bar of Nevada; Association of Southern California Defense Counsel; Defense Research Institute; National Health Lawyers; California Society for Healthcare Attorneys.
Biographical
Recipient: Corpus Juris Secundum Award; American Jurisprudence Awards in Conflicts of Law and Crimes. Member, Western State University Law Review, 1978-1979. Phi Alpha Delta. Author: Withholding and/or Withdrawing Life Sustaining Treatment Policies and Procedures, 1990. Contributing Author: Insurance Handbook for Business Litigators, 1989. Contributing Editor, Matthew Bender Federal Litigation Guide , Responding to Document Requests, 1990; Claims of Unfair Competition Are Striking the Workplace with Increasing Regularity, Orange County Business Journal, May, 1992; Limits on Litigation Privilege Could Portend Wider Liability, Los Angeles Daily Journal, August, 1992; Malpractice Cap Limits Injury Compensation, Orange County Business Journal, Special Healthcare Report, February, 1994; Court Limits Scope of Disability Claims, Orange County Business Journal, April, 1994. Speaker, Defense of Legal Malpractice, Orange County Bar Association Seminar, Lanai, Hawaii, October, 1993.