Education

Law School/Year: UCLA, 1967

Other Graduate School/Year: SDSU, 1964

Bar Admissions

Admitted to several U.S. District Courts throughout the country; Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; Second Circuit Court of Appeals; United States Supreme Court; American Bar Association; State Bar of California; San Diego County Bar Association; Federal Bar Association

Practice Areas

Business Litigation, Civil Litigation, Legal Malpractice, Aviation

Major Cases

Represented San Diego City Employees’ Retirement System in multiple lawsuits and governmental investigation arising out of San Diego pension crisis. Represented many Superior Court judges in proceedings before the Commission on Judicial Performance. Represented a national bank in the prosecution and trial of a civil RICO claim in Federal District Court arising out of judicial corruption in another court system. Served as lead counsel for a group of plaintiffs in a Warsaw Convention case tried in New York Federal Court arising out of the terrorist hijacking of Pan American Flight 73 in Karachi, Pakistan.

Professional Background

I have limited my practice to civil litigation.

Professional Affiliations

Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers; founding board member, San Diego Chapter of Association of Business Trial Lawyers; executive board member, Louis M. Welsh Inns of Court; former co-chair, ABA Committee on Commercial Litigation

Personal Background

Personal interests include flying, skiing, hunting and fishing.