Mary-Christine Sungaila

Background

Sungaila, Mary-Christine was born in 1967 in Mountain View, California, United States.

Education

Stanford University (Bachelor of Arts, with distinction and honors, 1988). University of California at Los Angeles, (Juris Doctor, 1991).

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, 1991, California and United States. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

1995, United States.

Supreme Court. Recipient: American Jurisprudence Award in Torts. University of California, Los Angeles University Fellowship for Academic Excellence.

Member, Moot Court Honors Program. Judicial Clerkship: Honorary Ferdinand F. Fernandez, United States.

Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1993-1994.

Honorary Alicemarie H. Stolter, United States. District Court, Central District of California, 1991-1992. Extern to Honorary Dorothy West. Nelson, United States.

Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1990.

Author: Bibliography, The Woman Advocate: Excelling in the 90"s, (Prentice Hall Law & Business, 1995). "Taking the Gendered Realities of Female Offenders into Account: Downward Departures for Coercion and Duress," 8 Federal Sentencing Reporter, 169 (1995).

"Sentencing Discretion Under The Guidelines: A Comment on The Commission"s Proposed Modifications," Federal Sentencing Reporter, 1997. "Unequal Justice: Women and The Law," Alethia Press, 1997.

Lecturer: University of Southern California Law School, "Gender Bias in the Courts" (1995).

Moderator and Planning Committee Member, San Diego County Bar Association Conference on Advocacy and Diversity (1995). Panelist, Second Annual Women Litigators Forum (1995). Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, "The Lanier Case: The Story of One Judge"s Blatant Abuse of Power and Public Trust," (1996).

Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, " Elimination of Bias: Staying Out of Trouble" (1996).

Speaker and Moderator, The Orange County Bar Association"s Annual Symposium on Gender Equality (1996). Member: Orange County (Member, Gender Equity Committee) and American (Newsletter Editor, The Woman Advocate Committee of the Section of Litigation, 1996—) Bar Associations.

State Bar of California (Member, Litigation Section, Technology Committee, 1992-1994). Orange County Women Lawyers.

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.

Achievements

• Mary-Christine Sungaila has been listed as a reputable lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell.

Membership

Member, Moot Court Honors Program. Judicial Clerkship: Honorary Ferdinand F. Fernandez, United States. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1993-1994.

Honorary Alicemarie H. Stolter, United States.

District Court, Central District of California, 1991-1992. Extern to Honorary Dorothy West. Nelson, United States.

Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1990.