Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Year Joined Organization: 1983

Lawyer Overview

• Environmental litigation with federal and state environmental agencies involving regulatory and permit proceedings and cost recovery actions, private party environmental litigation.



• Environmental transactional work.



• Land use and real property litigation including eminent domain.



• Representation of individuals and companies in administrative law proceedings before local, state, and federal agencies, and in administrative mandamus proceedings.



• Representation of officers and directors, savings and loan associations, and others in financial institution litigation involving FSLIC, FDIC, and RTC.



• Securities litigation.

Representative Cases

• Halaco Engineering Co. v. California Coastal Commission

Bar Admissions

• California, 1968
• U.S. District Court Central District of California, 1968
• U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 1968
• U.S. District Court Southern District of California, 1968
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1968
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of California, 1998

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Los Angeles County Bar Association (Member)
• American Bar Association (Member)

Classes and Seminars

• Instructor, Subsurface Migration of Hazardous Wastes, University of Southern California Continuing Education, May 1984
• Instructor, Hazardous Waste, University of California at Los Angeles Extension, October 1982
• Visiting Lecturer in Law, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 1968

Education

• University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, Berkeley, California, 1967
  J.D.
  Honors: Phi Alpha Delta
• University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1964
  A.B.

Published Works

• The Due-On-Sale Clause - Dawn: The California View, Los Angeles Lawyer, October, 1982
• Informed Consent-Liability Without Negligence, LACMA Physician, September, 1979
• Informed Consent - Latent Liability Without Negligence, The Western Journal of Medicine, August, 1977
• Reconsideration of Due-On-Sale - An Opportunity to Reemphasize the Difference Between and Outright Sale and an Installment Contract, Los Angeles Bar Journal, June, 1977

Address

11377 West Olympic Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90064

Phones

(310) 312-3133

Faxes

(310) 312-3788

Emails

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Websites

http://www.msk.com