California State University at Long Beach (Bachelor of Arts, Policy Science, cum laude, 1990). Southwestern University Law School (Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1994).
Worked at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi Limited liability partnership (Costa Mesa, California) specializing in Trials and Appeals in all Federal and State Courts. Administrative, Antitrust, Appellate, Banking, Bankruptcy and Reorganization, Construction, Communications, Corporate, Employment and Employee Benefits, Environmental, Estate Planning and Probate, Franchising, Finance, Health, Insurance Law, Intellectual Property, International Litigation and Trade, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Products Liability, Real Estate, Securities, Tax, Transportation. Admitted to the bar, 1995, California and United States.
District Court, Central District of California.
1997, United States. District Court, Southern District of California. Recipient, Paul Wildman Academic Scholarship.
Southwestern Law Moot Court Honors Program, 1992-1993, Oralist Roger Traynor Competition. Articles Editor, Editorial Board, Southwestern University Law Review.
Author: "Indian Giver: The Illusion of Effective Legal Redress for Native American Land Claims," 23 Southwest. U.L. Review
331 (1994).
The California offices (Costa Mesa, Los Angeles and San Francisco) focus on insurance, business, and personal injury/mass tort litigation. The insurance practice includes property and liability coverage disputes. subrogation, bad faith claims, environmental claims, crime and fidelity disputes, excess and reinsurance issues. The business litigation practice involves complex disputes in areas of antitrust and trade regulation, intellectual property, employment law, communications litigation, finance and other commercial matters.
The personal injury/mass tort practice involves representation of plaintiffs in mass torts and large-scale personal injury cases.