Admitted: 1973, Florida and District of Columbia; 1980, California, U.S. District Court, Central, Southern, Northern and Eastern Districts of California and U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Law School: University of Miami, J.D.
Member: Orange County Bar Association (Member, Board of Directors, 1987-1995, 1998-2003; Chair, Judiciary Committee, 1992-1993; Editor, Bulletin, 1988; Chair, Business Litigation Section, 1986; State Bar Conference of Delegates, 2000; Chair, Facilities Committee, 2001-2003).
Biography: Recipient, Harmon G. Scoville Award, 2004. Master, Peter M. Elliott Inn of Court (President, 2005). Author: "Amendments to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: Seven Hour Deposition Time Limits and a Narrowing of the Scope of Discovery," ABTL Report, Nov. 2000; "The Wickline Physician Anti-Retaliation Statute Snags a Physicians Group in its First Court Test," Bulletin of the Orange County Medical Assn., Nov/Dec. 2000. Lecturer: "Uniform Trade Secrets Act Preemption of Common Law Claims," Intellectual Property Section, Orange County Bar Assn., 2006; "Trial Preparation," The Rutter Group; "Depositions," Continuing Education of the Bar; "Hiring Your Competitor's Employees-The Rise and Fall of the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine of Trade Secrets Law," Orange County Bar Assn., 2000; "The Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine of Trade Secrets Law," Orange County Bar Assn., 2000; "How to Avoid the Rocky Shoals of Law Firm Dissolution," "Spotting Fallacies in Expert Witnesses' Testimony," Orange County Bar Association, 2002; "Uniform Trade Secrets Act Preemption of Common Law Claims," Intellectual Property Sec., Orange County Bar Assn., Oct. 2006. Speaker, "Preemption by the Uniform Trade Secrets Act," Orange County Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section, 2006. Speaker, "Cutting Edge Issues in California Trade Secrets and Proprietary Information," Labor & Employment Law Section, OCBA, July 14, 2008. Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., 1973-1975 and Los Angeles, 1976-1978. Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, 1978.
Born: Brooklyn, New York, December 23, 1947