• Former Member, Board of Directors, Temple of the Arts
• Member, Beverly Hills Citizens Oversight Committee
• Former Legal Counsel, The Hawn Foundation, Goldie Hawn’s charity dedicated to finding alternate approaches to treat children’s mental disorders
• Former Member of the Board, Summa Kids, an organization that raises funds to donate to charitable organizations assisting disadvantaged youth in Los Angeles

• California

• United States District Court for the Central and Southern Districts of California

• University of Southern California Gould School of Law  (J.D., Order of the Coif)
• University of Southern California  (B.S., magna cum laude)
  • Political Science
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Magna Cum Laude, Pi Sigma Alpha and Blue Key

Professional Experience

• Prevailed in defending an action seeking to both judicially foreclose on a 52 acre golf course and collect a deficiency of $12,600,000
• Won a jury verdict on behalf of a seller who was sued by the buyer to rescind the transaction based on a mutual mistake of fact as to the property’s boundaries which resulted in a shortfall of 11,000 square feet
• Successfully defended a tenant against a landlord who sought to cancel a master lease that would have resulted in the landlord’s capture of $100,000,000 directly from the tenants
• Won a Motion for Summary Judgment that was upheld on appeal involving an attempt by a seller of land to obtain millions of dollars in tax reimbursements received by the buyer
• Obtained a major settlement in favor of a banking client from an armored car company that failed to properly account for funds being transported from the client to ATMs located throughout the United States
• Defeated a newspaper’s claim that a newly established competitive publication owned by our client and plaintiff’s ex-employees, appropriated its trade secrets and confidential business information