Background
Saferstein, Harvey I. was born on September 27, 1943 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Milton Manuel and Dorothy Ida Saferstein.
Saferstein, Harvey I. was born on September 27, 1943 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Milton Manuel and Dorothy Ida Saferstein.
University of California at Berkeley (Bachelor of Arts, 1965). Harvard University (Bachelor of Laws, magna cum laude, 1968).
Worked at Chadbourne & Parke Limited Liability Partnership. Admitted to the bar, 1969, District of Columbia. 1971, California.
Phi Beta Kappa.
Member, Editorial Board, 1966-1967 and Executive Editor, 1967-1968, Harvard Law Review. Author: "The Ascendancy of Business Tort Claims in Antitrust Practice," 59 Antitrust Law Journal 379, 1991.
"Nonreviewability: A Functional Analysis of Committed to Agency Discretion," 82 Harvard Law Review 367, December, 1968.
Company-Author: "Creative Funding for High Technology Ventures," Los Angeles Lawyer, Volume 11, Number. 4, June, 1988. Author: "Professor Phillip East. Areeda, Chronicler for the Antitrust Masses" published in the Spring, 1996 edition of the American Bar Association Antitrust Magazine. Author: "An Overview of the Federal and State Law of Price Discrimination" published in 37th Annual Antitrust Law Institute for Practising Law Institute, 1996.
Adjunct Professor, Antitrust, Trade Regulation, Consumer Law and Remedies: University of Southern California Law Center, 1976.
Southwestern University School of Law, 1977-1983. Law Clerk to Judge Bailey Aldrich, United States.
Court of Appeals, First Circuit, 1968-1969. Advisor to Philip Elman, Federal Trade Commissioner, 1969-1970.
Regional Director, Federal Trade Commission, Los Angeles Regional Office, 1978-1979.
Member, Advisory Committee, 17th Far West Regional Conference on Women and the Law. Member, Central District of California Attorney Admission Fund Board, 1989. Cable News Network-Financial News Network, Antitrust Correspondent, 1996.
Member: The District of Columbia Bar.
Los Angeles County (Member: Board of Trustees, 1987-1989. Executive Committee, 1977-1983 and Treasurer, 1982, Antitrust Section.
Executive Committee, 1980-1983. Secretary, 1986-1987, Chairman, 1987-1989, Law and Technology Section) and American (Member, Federal Trade Commission Committee.
Special Coordinating Committee on RICO.
Chair, Business Torts and Unfair Competition Committee, 1989-1992, Vice Chairman, Civil Practice and Procedure Committee, 1988-1990, Antitrust Law Section. Section of Litigation) Bar Associations. State Bar of California (Member, Board of Governors, 1989-1992.
President, 1992-1993).
Association of Business Trial Lawyers (Member, Board of Governors, 1984-1991. Treasurer and Program Chair, 1987-1988.
Secretary, 1988-1989. Vice President, 1989-1990.
President, 1990-1991).
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (Member, Board of Directors, 1984-1989. President, 1987-1989). Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference (Delegate, 1985-1987.
Executive Committee, 1987-1991.
Activities Chair, 1989. Program Chair, 1990; Chair, 1991).
California Judicial Council (Member, 1993). Fellow, American Bar Foundation.
(Resident in Los Angeles, California).
President Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, 1987-1989. Member executive com Advocates forArts. Member Access to Justice in California Task Force, since 1997.
Member American Bar Association (vice chairman civil practice and procedures committee, antitrust section, litigation section, tort & insurance practice section), Judicial Council California, California State Bar Foundation, California State Bar (Board of Governors 1989-1992, president 1992-1993), Los Angeles County Bar Association (trustee 1987-1990, committee chairman since 1986), Association Business Trial Lawyers (Board of Governors since 1984, treasurer 1987-1988, secretary 1988-1989, vice president 1989-1990, president 1990-1991), Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference (Executive Committee since 1987, chairman 1991, conference chairman program 1990), Los Angeles County Barristers (Executive Committee), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Margaret Ellen Yeddis, August 22, 1965. Children: Jonathan Y., Daniel Y., Philip L.