Current Employment Position(s)

Attorney, Mediator

Lawyer Overview

Zachary D. Wechsler provides clients with a full range of legal services including the defense of all licensed professionals facing discipline, license suspense or revocation, or substance abuse charges.  Mr. Wechsler has represented clients before Administrative Panels, State Agencies, Trial and Appellate Courts.  Among Mr. Wechsler's clients are attorneys facing State Bar discipline and applicants to the State Bar with Moral Character considerations; licensed health-care professionals such as physicians, dentists, RNs, LVNs, psychologists, and other business professionals such as real estate salespersons and brokers, insurance brokers, contractors, smog dealers, bail bonds licensees, jockeys and trainers, and other professionals facing investigation or professional discipline.  Mr. Wechsler is also skilled in providing business and employment consultation, litigation, and appeals.  He also provides mediation, services to non-client parties who are interested in alternative dispute resolution. References are available upon request. 

As part of his business law practice, Mr. Wechsler has helped firms and individuals resolve all their legal concerns from entity choice and corporate filings through contract negotiations, business and employment disputes.

Mr. Wechsler is a former Deputy Attorney General for the State of California and was appointed to the Committee of Bar Examiners by the Board of Governors of the State Bar of California from 2000 through 2004.   He is a Los Angeles County Superior Court certified mediator who formerly served on the mediation and arbitration panels of the Los Angeles County Superior Court and is currently a member of the Southern California Mediation Association. In addition, Mr. Wechsler served on the California Appellate Project, a court sponsored program for indigent defendants.

Mr. Wechsler received his law degree, cum laude, from Loyola Law School.  He was honored with the American Jurisprudence Awards in Legal Writing and Corporations and was the recipient of the Faculty Academic Honors Scholarship.  He was elected Vice President of the Saint Thomas More Honor Society and is a member of the venerable legal fraternity, Phi Delta Phi.  He also served as an extern for the honorable Justice Sheila Prell Sonenshine in the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Division Three.

He is a member of the of the State Bar of California, the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) and its Legal Referral Service (LRIS), the Beverly Hills Bar Association (BHBA), the Santa Monica Bar Association (SMBA); the Southern California Mediation Association (SCMA), the American Bar Association (ABA), the LAX-Coastal Area Chamber of Commerce, the California Association of Disciplinary Defense Counsel (CADDC), the California  Academy of Attorneys for Health Care Professionals (CAAHCP) and the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL).

Mr. Wechsler has been admitted to practice before all California State Courts and the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Areas of Practice

• Administrative Law
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Business & Commercial Law
• Contracts
• Business Organizations
• Employment Law -- Employee
• Employment Law -- Employer
• Entertainment, Sports & Leisure Law
• Ethics & Professional Responsibility
• Litigation & Appeals

Representative Cases

• Baker v. Gourley, 81 Cal.App.4th 1167, 97 Cal.Rptr.2d 451 (Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Division 2, California 2000)

West Practice Categories

Administrative Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Business & Commercial Law, Contracts, Business Organizations, Employment Law -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employer, Entertainment, Sports & Leisure Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Litigation & Appeals

Bar Admissions

• California, 1998
• U.S. District Court Central District of California, 1998

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Southern California Mediation Association (Member)
• California Appellate Project (Court-Appointed Attorney)
• Los Angeles County Bar Association (Member)
• Beverly Hills Bar Association (Member)
• Santa Monica Bar Association (Member)
• Southern California Mediation Association (Member)
• American Bar Association (Member)
• State Bar of California (Member)
• Culver City Marina del Rey Bar Association (Member)
• LAX/Westchester/MDR Chamber of Commerce (Member)
• Linked In (Member)
• Face Book (Member)
• Plexo (Member)
• California Academy of Attorneys for Health Care Professionals (Member)
• California Association of Disciplinary Defense Counsel (Member)
• Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (Member)

Education

• Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California, June, 1998
  J.D.
  Honors: cum laude
  Honors: Order of the Coif
  Honors: Recipient, Faculty Academic Honors Scholarship
  Honors: Vice President, St. Thomas Moore Honor Society
  Honors: Member, Phi Delta Phi
  Honors: Recipient, American Jurisprudence Awards in Legal Writing and Corporations
• Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1977
  B.A.
  Major: Philosophy
  Major: Government

Address

6060 Center Drive
Suite 825
Los Angeles, CA 90045-1596

Phones

(310) 642-4600

Faxes

(310) 642-4646

Emails

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Websites

http://www.zdwlaw.com