Background
Johnson, James G. was born on March 22, 1949 in Santa Monica, California, United States.
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James G. Johnson
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University of California at Los Angeles (Bachelor of Arts, 1971). California Western University Law School (Juris Doctor, 1974). Georgetown University (Master of Laws, 1975).
Career
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, 1974, California and United States.
District Court, Central District of California.
1975, United States. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of California. 1977, United States. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
1978, United States. Supreme Court. 1983, United States.
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. 1993, United States. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
Phi Delta Phi. Author: "Employment Contracts: How to Prepare Them," Chapter 12, The Employee Termination Handbook, John Wiley & Sons, 1986.
"Selecting the Forum," Chapter 6, Advising California Employers, C.E.B. California Continuing Education of the Bar, 1981. "Albemarle Paper Company v.
Moody: The Aftermath of Griggs and the Death of Employee Testing," 27 Hastings Law Journal 1239, 1976. Los Angeles County Bar Delegate, California State Bar, 1979.
Judge Pro Tem, Pasadena Municipal Court, 1994.
Member, Executive Committee, 1983 and Chairman, Seminar Committee, 1985-1987, Labor and Employment Law Section, Continuing Legal Education Planning Committee and Alcohol and Drug Abuse Advisory Committee, 1989-1992, Los Angeles County Bar Association. Vice-Chair, Program Committee, State Bar Labor and Employment Law Section, State Bar of California, 1984-1985. 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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Membership
Member, Executive Committee, 1983 and Chairman, Seminar Committee, 1985-1987, Labor and Employment Law Section, Continuing Legal Education Planning Committee and Alcohol and Drug Abuse Advisory Committee, 1989-1992, Los Angeles County Bar Association. Vice-Chair, Program Committee, State Bar Labor and Employment Law Section, State Bar of California, 1984-1985.
