Background
Kaus, Stephen was born on August 25, 1948 in Santa Monica, California, United States.
Kaus, Stephen was born on August 25, 1948 in Santa Monica, California, United States.
Kaus received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, cum laude, from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1970. He also studied politics for a year at the University of Sussex. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law in 1973.
Worked at Cooper, White & Cooper (San Francisco, California) specializing in General Business and Trial Practice, Corporate, Real Property, Regulated Industries and Public Utilities, Equipment Leasing, Asset and Credit Based Financing, Communications and Media including Broadcasting, Cable Television, Libel, Newspaper, and Telecommunications, First Amendment, Labor and Employment including Wrongful Termination and Discrimination, Employee Benefits and Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Insurance, Taxation, Securities, Construction, Creditors" Rights and Bankruptcy, Environmental, Estate Planning and Trust Administration, Intellectual Property, Maritime, Personal Injury, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Criminal Defense. Admitted to the bar, 1973, California and United States. District Court, Northern District of California.
1981, United States.
Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. 1989, United States. District Court, Eastern and Central Districts of California. Recipient: American Jurisprudence Award for Contracts.
"Award of Merit," Bar Association of San Francisco, 1996.
Author: "Prosecutorial and Judicial Misconduct," 1981 and 1983 Supplements, California Continuing Education of the Bar. Lecturer, Trial Practice, Boalt Hall School of Law, 1981-1985.
Instructor, Federal Civil Litigation, University of San Francisco, 1992-1995. Instructor and Company-Editor of Materials, Civil Procedure Before Trial, California Continuing Education of the Bar, January, 1986 through 1997.
Instructor, Legal Journalism University of California Berkeley, School of Journalism, 1996.
Lecturer, Advanced Strategies in Wrongful Termination, Practicing Law Institute, 1988. Lecturer, Cross-Examination Workshop, P.L.I., San Francisco, 1989-1990. Panelist: "1992 Federal Litigation", "How to Litigate Successfully in San Francisco Superior Court," and "Hot Topics in Legal Ethics," The Rutter Group, 1992-1995.
"Way New Journalism: The Digital Evolution," South.F. State University, 1995.
Member: Bar Association of San Francisco (Member, 1989-1993 and Chair, 1994, Special Committee on Appointed Counsel). Cooper, White & Cooper provides a broad range of legal services to corporations, organizations and individuals, many of whom have been with the firm for decades.
Since the firm"s founding in 1896, our range of practice specialties has steadily expanded to meet our clients" changing needs. Our goal is to provide the highest quality and most responsive services, at reasonable fees.
Bar Association of San Francisco (Member: Criminal Justice Advisory Council, since 1981. Member, Special Committee on Appointed Counsel, 1989-1990).