Background
Bowles, James A. was born on January 2, 1954 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.
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James A. Bowles
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Indiana University (Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, 1976). Georgetown University (Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1979). Spoken languages: Spanish.
Career
Wholesale and Retail Food Distribution Local 63 v. Santa Fe Terminal Services, Incorporated., 836 F.Supp. 326 (Communicative Disorders California 1993); Graefenhain v. Pabst Brewing Company, 870 F.2d 1198 (7th Circuit, 1989); Cardinal Distributing Company v. ALRB, 159 Cal.App. 3d 758 (1984); Southern California Pipe Trades Trust Funds v. Franchise Tax Board, 909 F.2d 1266 (9th Circuit 1990). USCP-Wesco v. National Labor Relations Board, 827 F.2d 581 (9th Circuit 1987).Worked at Hill, Farrer & Burrill Limited Liability Partnership (Los Angeles, California) specializing in General Civil and Trial Practice in all State and Federal Courts. Corporation, Securities, Antitrust, Real Estate (Finance Development and Environmental), Eminent Domain, Taxation, Bankruptcy and Creditors Rights, Labor Relations and Employment Law, Probate, Trust, Oil and Gas, Insurance, Government Contract and Administrative Law. Admitted to the bar, 1979, California, United States.
District Court, Central District of California and United States.
Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. 1982, United States. Court of Appeals, for the District of Columbia Circuit and United States.
District Court, Southern District of California. 1983, United States. Supreme Court.
1987, United States. District Court, Eastern District of California.
1988, Wisconsin, United States. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit and United States. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin.
Phi Beta Kappa.
Author: "Defining the Scope of Bargaining for Teacher Negotiations: A Study of Judicial Approaches," The Commerce Clearing House Labor Law Journal, October, 1978. Member: American Bar Association. Hill, Farrer & Burrill Limited Liability Partnership, located in downtown Los Angeles, is one of California"s oldest and most respected law firms.
Today, Hill, Farrer & Burrill Limited Liability Partnership represents an array of clients, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to individuals, with a special emphasis on small and mid-sized companies, and companies with small or mid-sized internal legal departments.
The clients are served by legal specialists organized into five major practice areas: Litigation, Labor and Employment, Corporate and Business, Real Estate and Tax. Hill, Farrer & Burrill Limited Liability Partnership"s knowledgeable and experienced litigators have represented clients in courts throughout the United States. including the federal district courts, and state trial courts.
Several are licensed to practice in other states and in federal courts when representing clients in those jurisdictions. Hill, Farrer & Burrill Limited Liability Partnership"s tax law specialists represent clients in tax litigation, including appellate work, and in administrative proceedings before the Internal Revenue Service and state and local taxing agencies.
Hill, Farrer & Burrill Limited Liability Partnership"s Corporate and Business Department provides full transactional representation for a variety of clients, including individual entrepreneurs, venture capital firms, investment banks, publicly-traded corporations and privately-held companies of every size.
We offer particular expertise on the legal concerns of small and mid-sized California corporations. Our real estate specialists are well recognized for their work representing institutional lenders and other creditors in "workouts" of troubled real estate projects and transactions. Our real estate attorneys work closely with our bankruptcy and creditor"s rights attorneys to handle issues such as foreclosure transactions, structuring "deed in lieu of foreclosure" transactions, and restructuring secured financings in default.
Hill, Farrar & Burrill Limited Liability Partnership also boasts considerable expertise in the growing and complex legal field surrounding environmental and toxic waste issues.
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Member: American Bar Association.
