Current Employment Position(s)

Associate, since 2007

Lawyer Overview

Ever since her days as a high school journalist, Alana Rotter enjoyed the challenge of gathering information, analyzing it, and then presenting it to readers in a clear and engaging form.  She suspected that a career in the law would call upon many of the same skills, and has been delighted to have her suspicions confirmed in her work as a federal appellate clerk and in private practice.

Alana developed an interest in the law while attending U.C. Berkeley, where she took undergraduate courses in Constitutional Law and the First Amendment for her Political Science and Mass Communications majors, and at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where she studied Jewish law during a semester abroad.  Following a fellowship in Washington, D.C. in which she developed curricula introducing teenagers to political and social justice issues, Alana attended Yale Law School and then went on to clerk for the Honorable Kermit V. Lipez of the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.  Alana became hooked on appellate law during her clerkship, relishing the opportunity to research and analyze a broad range of legal issues from criminal procedure and sentencing to equal protection and discrimination.  After clerking, Alana pursued her interest in appellate law as an associate at Irell & Manella, working on briefs for the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit, and the California Court of Appeal, and contributing to a monthly Daily Journal column on circuit splits.  She joined GMSR in 2007 and looks forward to continuing her appellate practice at the firm.

Areas of Practice

• Appellate Law
• Litigation

West Practice Categories

Litigation & Appeals, Federal Appellate Practice, State Appellate Practice

Past Employment Positions

• Irell & Manella LLP, Associate, 2005 - 2007

Education

• Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, 2004
  
  Law Journal: Yale Law Journal, Editor and Member of Admissions Committee
  
  Law Review: Yale Law and Policy Review, Notes Editor
• University of California, Berkeley, Berkely, California, USA, 2000
  B.A. Political Science and Mass Communications
  Honors: with highest distinction

Published Works

• Appellate Law: Getting to the Substance (Co-Author), Los Angeles Daily Journal, November 9, 2006
• 10th Circuit at Center of Splits on Anti-Discrimination Laws (Co-Author), Los Angeles Daily Journal, September 8, 2006
• 3rd Circuit Splits From Other Courts on Fair Opportunity Doctrine (Co-Author), Los Angeles Daily Journal, July 24, 2006
• Circuit Splits Affect Conflicts of Authority (Co-Author), Los Angeles Daily Journal, June 14, 2006
• Splits Involve Issues Affecting Business, Government, Workers (Co-Author), Los Angeles Daily Journal, May 18, 2006
• When Private Enterprise Hits Public Agencies, Splits Arise, Los Angeles Daily Journal, April 13, 2006

Address

5900 Wilshire Boulevard
12th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Phones

(310) 859-7811

Faxes

(310) 276-5261

Emails

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Websites

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