Background
Lerman Helyar, L. Rachel was born on January 21, 1960 in Rochester, New York, United States.
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L. Rachel Lerman Helyar
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Yale University (Bachelor of Arts, with honors, 1980). Syracuse University (Master of Arts, Religion, 1985. Master of Fine Arts, Painting, 1986).
Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley (Juris Doctor, 1992).
Career
Worked at Horvitz & Levy (Los Angeles, California) specializing in All Civil Appeals and Related Appellate Practice, including Trial Consultations, with Emphasis in the Areas of Business Law, Commercial Law, Contracts, Health Care, Hospitals, Insurance and Insurance Defense (including Coverage and Bad Faith), Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Legal and Medical Malpractice, Negligence, Personal Injury, Products Liability, Professional Liability, and Torts. Admitted to the bar, 1995, Idaho. United States. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit (Not admitted California).
Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Jurisprudence, Schurman Scholarship for International and Comparative Law, Universität Heidelberg, 1992.
Articles Editor, Berkeley Women"s Law Journal, 1989-1991. Judicial Clerkship: Honorary Thomas G. Nelson, United States.
Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1994-1996. Author: ""Let Order Reign": The Judge as Oracle in Antebellum America," Law, Judges & the State (Max Planck Institute, Frankfurt, Germany, 1996).
Horvitz & Levy is the largest firm in California specializing in civil appellate litigation.
The firm appears regularly in the California and federal appellate courts as lead counsel or amicus curiae on behalf of insurance carriers, the health care community, manufacturers and other business organizations, public entities, and business and professional trade associations. Since 1981, the firm has briefed more civil cases in the California Supreme Court as lead counsel or as amicus curiae, than any other private law firm in California. The firm consults with clients and trial counsel in evaluating cases for appeal and in assisting trial counsel to present and preserve issues for appeal.
The firm also provides its clients with analyses of new legislation, important court decisions and other matters affecting their interests.
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American
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Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Jurisprudence, Schurman Scholarship for International and Comparative Law, Universität Heidelberg, 1992. Articles Editor, Berkeley Women"s Law Journal, 1989-1991. Judicial Clerkship: Honorary Thomas G. Nelson, United States.tempSpaceCourt of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1994-1996.Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Jurisprudence, Schurman Scholarship for International and Comparative Law, Universität Heidelberg, 1992. Articles Editor, Berkeley Women"s Law Journal, 1989-1991. Judicial Clerkship: Honorary Thomas G. Nelson, United States.tempSpaceCourt of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1994-1996.