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| Practice Areas | Labor and Employment; Civil Litigation; Employment Litigation; Real Estate Litigation; Business Litigation; Construction Defect Litigation; Landlord and Tenant; Unlawful Detainer; Bioethics; Assisted Reproductive Technology | | | University | Northwestern University, B.A., 1979 | | | Law School | IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D., 1986 | | | Admitted | 1986, California | |
| Memberships | State Bar of California; Los Angeles County Bar Association (Bioethics Committee, 1987—; Co-Chair, 1998-2000); Joint LACBA-LACMA Bioethics Committee, 1998— American Society of Reproductive Medicine; Academy of California Adoption Lawyers/Academy of California Family Formation Lawyers; Society of Assisted Reproduction Professionals; Chicago-Kent Alumni Association of Southern California (Founder); CEB Business & Intellectual Property Law Advisory Committee. | | | Born | Chicago, Illinois, August 16, 1958 | | | Biography | Received Martindale-Hubbell's highest rating for Legal Ability and Ethics. Law Clerk to: The Honorable N. Fred Woods, Superior Court, County of Los Angeles, Central District, California, 1986; The Honorable Prentice H. Marshall, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 1985. Co-Author: "Ethical Aspects of Genetic Testing," 20 Whittier Law Review, No. 2, p. 411 (1998); "Advising California Employers Supplement" (CEB, 2003); "Genetic Testing in Assisted Reproduction," Hastings Center Report (November-December 2003). Author: "Considerations in Surrogacy Contracts," 21 Whittier Law Review, No. 2, p. 429 (1999); "Equal Employment Law Development," CEB Business Law Quarterly (Spring 2004); "Reducing Employer Liability to Whistleblowers", California Business Law Practitioner, Volume 20, No. 4 (CEB Fall, 2005) p. 112; "The Facts of Life: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Child Care Leave Laws for Litigators", Civil Litigation Reporter, Volume 27, No. 3, (CEB June 2005) p.88.; "Reducing Employer Liability to Whistleblowers", California Business Law Practitioner, Volume 20, No. 4 (CEB Fall, 2005) p. 112. "Advising California Lawyers and Employees", (co-authored), Ch. 16 "Whistleblower Issues" CEB 2005), Volume 2, pp1449-1463 and Updates for 2006, 2007 and 2008; "Coping With Leave Laws", California Business Law Practitioner, Volume 23, No. 2 (CEB Spring, 2008) p. 63. Reviewer: Practice Under the California Family Code, Ch. 8a "Parentage" (CEB 2009), pp. 363-423. Visiting Scholar: 9/03-10/03 The Hastings Center for Bioethics, Garrison, New York. Guest Lecturer, University of California at Los Angeles Law School, 1987-1990. Adjunct Professor: California State University, Los Angeles, 1991-1992; Whittier Law School, 1993-1997. Mediator, Los Angeles County, Superior and Municipal Courts, 2002-2008. Arbitrator, Los Angeles County Superior and Municipal Courts, 1991-1997. Board Member: The Center for Research & Training in Humane and Ethical Medical Care; Santa Monica/UCLA Medical Center, 2003—. | | | Reported Cases | In re Conservatorship of Wendland, 93 Cal.Rptr.2d 550 (2/4/2000), review granted; Bluestein v. Producstion Arts Management, et. al. (DLSE 11/4/99), http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/TAC/24-98.pdf (last accessed 3/14/09); B.U.M. International, Inc. v. Kaplan, (PTO 9/23/97) (not to be cited) http://uspto.gov/web/offices/com/sol/foia/ttab/2dissues/1997/98027.pdf (last accessed 3/14/2009); Malee Bureerong, et al., v. Tavee Uvawas, et al., 922 F.Supp. 1450 (C.D.CA 1996); Malee Bureerong, et al. v. Tavee Uvawas, et al., 167 F.R.D. 83 (C.D.CA 1996); In re NSB Film Corp., 160 Bankr.Rep. 151 (Bankr.C.D.CA 1993). | | | ISLN | 902491401 | |
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