Current Employment Position(s)

Associate, since 2006

Lawyer Overview

Already a seasoned criminal appellate lawyer and civil litigator, Kent Bullard joined GMSR eager to dedicate himself to civil appellate practice. After honing his legal research and writing skills as a federal judicial clerk in Reno, he served more than four years as a Deputy Attorney General, successfully briefing and arguing criminal cases in the California Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal and in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. From there, he went to Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, where, over the course of five years, he litigated complex civil cases and also worked to develop an expertise in civil appeals, briefing a variety of cases in state and federal appellate courts. A highlight of his appellate practice there was authoring a successful motion to dismiss a high-stakes divorce appeal.

Kent formed a solid foundation for appellate work at UCLA School of Law, where he learned appellate advocacy from a former California Supreme Court justice and worked for a professor as a researcher and editor on portions of the Restatement of Property. He also drafted several Ninth Circuit briefs as a summer law clerk for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Las Vegas. And he was selected to be one of two student speakers at the 1994 law school commencement (where he delivered a speech comparing the experiences of attending law school and junior high school).

Not only has he appeared many times before appellate judges, but Kent also has performed the role of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Trial of Oliver Wendell Holmes, a play presented as part of UCLA School of Law's Nimmer Memorial Lecture series, and he has served as a judge in UCLA's Moot Court Honors Program. He is also a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Appellate Courts Committee. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two children and hiking and mountain biking in the Verdugo Mountains near his home in Glendale.

Kent is happy to be practicing appellate law at GMSR, even if it means he has to be the other Kent.

Areas of Practice

• Appellate Law
• Business Litigation
• Tort Litigation

Representative Cases

• Central Garden & Pet Co. v. Scotts Co., 85 Fed. Appx. 633 (Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals 2004)
• People v. Smith, 24 Cal.4th 849 (California Supreme Court 2001)
• People v. Morante, 20 Cal.4th 403 (California Supreme Court 1999)
• People v. Robinson, 63 Cal.App.4th 348 (California Court of Appeal 1998)

West Practice Categories

Business & Commercial Law, Litigation & Appeals, Federal Appellate Practice, State Appellate Practice

Past Employment Positions

• Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP, 2001 - 2005
• Office of the Attorney General, State of California, 1996 - 2001
• Honorable David W. Hagen, United States District Court, District of Nevada, Law Clerk, 1994 - 1996

Education

• UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California, 1994
  J.D.
• University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 1987
  B.A.
  Honors: cum laude
  Major: Linguistics & Psychology

Address

5900 Wilshire Boulevard
12th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Phones

(310) 859-7811

Faxes

(310) 276-5261

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http://www.gmsr.com
http://www.greinesmartin.com