Background
Richland, Kent L. was born on November 28, 1946 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
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Kent L. Richland
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University of California at Berkeley (Bachelor of Arts, 1968). University of California at Los Angeles (Juris Doctor, 1971).
Career
Worked at Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland (Beverly Hills, California) specializing in Appellate, Law and Motion and Related Practice in State and Federal Courts. Admitted to the bar, 1972, California, United States. District Court, Central District of California and United States.
Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
1975, United States. Supreme Court. Member, Moot Court Honors Program.
Author: "Taming The Odds: Increasing The Chances of Getting Relief From The Supreme Court," California Litigation, Volume 5, Number. 2., Winter 1992; "Depublication," Los Angeles Lawyer, Volume 13, Number.
6, August & September, 1990.
Lecturer: "Step By Step: The Appellate Process," Continuing Education of the Bar, June, 1983. "The Court of Appeal Speaks," Continuing Education of the Bar, April, 1987. "Extraordinary Writ Practice," Continuing Education of the Bar, December, 1987.
Appellate Practice Seminar, American Bar Association, March, 1988.
"Learning From The Appellate Experts," 1994. "Ninth Circuit Practice," 17th Annual Federal Practice Institute, 1994.
Company-Chair, American Bar Association National Institute on Medical Malpractice, 1989, 1990. "Developments in Civil Procedure," Continuing Education of the Bar, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996.
"Handling Civil Writs In The Court of Appeal," Continuing Education of the Bar, 1991.
1996 California Appellate Courts Institute, "Views From The Other Side of The Bench", CJER. Deputy Attorney General, California (Supervising Attorney), 1972-1976. Examiner, California Commission on Judicial Qualifications, 1975. Deputy State Public Defender (Supervising Attorney), 1976-1978.
Senior Staff Attorney to Presiding Justice Otto M. Kaus, California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, 1978-1980.
Member, Board of Advisors, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, 1978-1988. Adjunct Professor of Law, Southwestern University School of Law, 1986-1987.
Member: Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County Bar Association (Member, Editorial Board, Los Angeles Bar Journal, 1973-1978. Managing Editor and Articles Editor, Los Angeles Bar Journal, 1977-1978.
Member, Board of Editors, Los Angeles Lawyer, 1978-1982.
Member, Committee on Delivery of Legal Services, 1977-1978. Member, Judicial Evaluation Committee, 1984-1996. Member, California Judicial Systems Committee, 1986-1988.
Chair, 1988-1989.
Appellate Courts Committee, 1978. Company-Vice Chair, 1983-1985. Chair, 1985-1988; Member, Ad Hoc Committee on State Appellate Judicial Appointments, 1988-1989.
State Appellate Judicial Evaluation Committee, 1989.
Vice-Chair, 1990-1992. Chair, 1992-1994) and American (Vice-Chair, Appellate Advocacy Committee, Torts and Insurance Practice Section, 1989-1990.
Chair-Elect, 1990-1991) Bar Associations. State Bar of California (Conference of Delegates, State Bar Convention, 1980).
California Academy of Appellate Lawyers (Secretary-Treasurer, 1992-1993.
Second Vice President, 1993-1994. First Vice President, 1994-1995. President, 1995-1996).
Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland established in 1983, specializes in appellate practice.
The firm has briefed and argued appeals in the United States Supreme Court, in every state and federal appellate court in California, and in the Supreme Courts of California, Alaska and Nevada. In addition to appeals, the firm has prepared and filed numerous petitions for review, for certiorari and for extraordinary writs and has argued these matters in the reviewing courts.
The firm"s attorneys appear as counsel of record or as amicus counsel on scores of published and hundreds of unpublished appellate decisions.
Achievements
Membership
Member, Moot Court Honors Program.
