Background
Hastie, William H. was born on March 5, 1947 in Saint Thomas, United States. Virgin Islands.
Hastie, William H. was born on March 5, 1947 in Saint Thomas, United States. Virgin Islands.
Amherst College (Bachelor of Arts, 1968). University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France. Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California (Juris Doctor, 1971).
Editor and Annotator, "California Civil Rights Laws," California Fair Employment and Housing Commission, 1978.
Worked at Arnelle, Hastie, McGee, Willis & Greene (Los Angeles, California. Also San Francisco, California) specializing in Commercial Litigation, Employment Law, Business. Admitted to the bar, 1973, Pennsylvania and United States.
District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
1974, California, United States. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit and United States.
District Court, Northern District of California. 1990, United States. District Court, Central District of California.
Editor and Annotator, "California Civil Rights Laws," California Fair Employment and Housing Commission, 1978.
Author: "Wrongful Discharge: New Plaintiff"s Tool," Current Trends in Housing and Employment, University of Missouri-KC, Continuing legal education, 1987. "Protecting the Individual Corporate Defendant in Wrongful Termination Cases," Employment Relations Today, 1987. Visiting Law Professor: Graduate School of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley, 1981-1982 and 1983-1985.
American Bar Association Model Trial Institute, 1978.
Court-appointed lawyer representative: United States. Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, 1976-1978.
Ninth Circuit Committee on Evaluation of Lawyers, 1979-1981. Pro Tem, United States Trial Commissioner, 1985-1987.
Director, Blue Cross of California, 1994.
Recipient: Legal Defense Fund National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Pro Bono Legal Service Award, 1989. Bar Association of San Francisco, Distinguished Service Award, 1990. Charles Houston Bar, Clinton White Trial Advocacy Award, 1991.
National Bar Association, Commercial Law Award, 1992.
California Association of Black Lawyers, Lawyer of the Year Award, 1993. Undersecretary and General Counsel, California State and Consumer Services Agency, 1979-1982.
Executive and Chief Legal Officer, California Fair Employment and Housing Commission, 1976-1978. Member: Bar Association of San Francisco (Member, Committee on Federal Practice, 1976-1977).
Pennsylvania and American (Member: Legal Education Section, 1974-1976.
Committee on Bar Examinations and Clinical Legal Education, 1974-1977. Labor and Employment Law, 1986-1992. Economics of the Practice of Law, 1988-1993) Bar Associations.
State Bar of California (Member: Disciplinary Hearing Subcommittee, 1977-1979.
Advisory Panel on Bar Examinations, 1978-1979. Steering Committee, California Minority Counsel Program, 1989-1993, Chair, 1992-1993).
National Bar Association (Chair, National Task Force on Economic Development, 1988-1989. Member, Commercial Law Section.
Chair, Corporate Counsel Conference, 1992).
California Association of Black Lawyers (Company-Chair, Corporate Counsel Conference, 1988-1989). Charles Houston Bar Association. William Hastie Lawyers Association.
(Also at San Francisco, California Office).
Bar Association of San Francisco (Member, Committee on Federal Practice, 1976-1977). Pennsylvania and American (Member: Legal Education Section, 1974-1976. Committee on Bar Examinations and Clinical Legal Education, 1974-1977.
Labor and Employment Law, since 1986.
Economics of the Practice of Law, since 1988). Bar Associations; State Bar of California (Member: Disciplinary Hearing Subcommittee, 1977- 1979.
Advisory Panel on Bar Examinations, 1978-1979. Steering Committee, California Minority Counsel Program, since 1989).
National Bar Association (Chair, National Task Force on Economic Development, 19881989.
Member, Commercial Law Section). California Association of Black Lawyers (Company-Chair, Corporate Counsel Conference, 1988-1989). Charles Houston Bar Association.
William Hastie Lawyers Association.
National Association of Bond Lawyers. (Also at Los Angeles, Oakland and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
Litigation, Transactions, Public Finance.
