CLERKSHIPS

Hon. Ferdinand F. Fernandez, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit (1993-1994)

Hon. Alicemarie H. Stotler,
U.S. District Court, Central District of California (1991-1992)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Break the Cycle
Member, Board of Directors (2007-present)

Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
Board of Governors
Chair, Amicus Briefs Committee (2003–present)
Co-Chair, Amicus Briefs Committee (2000-2003)

American Bar Association
Founding Newsletter Editor, The Woman Advocate Committee of the Section of Litigation (1996-1997)
Member, Appellate Practice Committee
Member, Council of Appellate Lawyers

Orange County Bar Association
Member, Gender Equity Committee
Co-Chair, Gender Equity Subcommittee on Education (1997)
Member, Gender Bias Manual Subcommittee (1997-1998)

Board of Directors, Opera Pacific
(1996 to 2005)

Member, Board of Advisors, Claremont Graduate University School of Arts and Humanities (2006-present)

Member, Amicus Briefs Committee, International Association of Defense Counsel (2008-present)

PUBLICATIONS

Author, The WLALA Amicus Briefs Committee: Advocating for Equality in the California Supreme Court (July 2008) Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles Newsletter, Vol. 12, No. 11.

Author, Applying Common Sense: Limiting Manufacturers' Duty to Warn in California, Verdict (1st Quarter 2008) p. 29.

Author, Preliminary Opposition Authorized by Rules of Court, Chapter 21, Cal. Civil Writ Practice (Cont.Ed.Bar 4th ed. 2008).

Co-Author, Justices Will Give Guidance on Excluding Expert Testimony, L.A. Daily J. (August 23, 2006) p. 8

Consultant, 2 Cal. Civil Discovery Practice (Cont.Ed.Bar 4th ed. 2006) Writs and Appeals, § 16 et seq., pp. 1409 to 1442

Author, Quantity or quality? (May 18, 2006) Legal Week

Co-Author, Standing Out from the Crowd: Successfully Obtaining Writ Relief from Discovery Orders (2005) volume 18, No. 2, Cal. Litigation, p. 40

Co-Author, New Standards for Expert Testimony, California Lawyer (July 2005)

Co-Author, CA Court Excludes Medical Expert Causation Testimony (Apr. 2004) vol. 21, No. 6, Medical Malpractice Law & Strategy 1

On the Cutting Edge:
As Pending Supreme Court Cases Concerning
Contraceptive Coverage and Second-Parent
Adoption Show, California Continues to be at the
Forefront of the Law, 11 Southern California
Review of Law and Women's Studies 399 (Spring
2002)

Nguyen v. INS and Sex Stereotyping in Citizenship Laws: Building on the Equal Protection Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, (Spring 2001) 10 So. Cal. Rev. of Law & Women's Studies 293

United States v. Morrison: The United States Supreme Court, the Violence Against Women Act, and the New Federalism (2000) 9 S. Cal. Rev. of L. & Women's Stud. 301

Co-Author, Brief Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners, Brzonkala v. Morrison (2000) 9 S. Cal. Rev. of L. & Women's Stud. 369

Effective Amicus Practice Before the United States Supreme Court: A Case Study (1999) 8 S. Cal. Rev. L. & Women's Stud. 187

Co-Author, Brief Amici Curiae of NOW Legal Defense & Education Fund, et al. in Support of the Petitioner in Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education (1999) 8 S. Cal. Rev. L. & Women's Stud. 279 (reprinted in 11 Hastings Women's L. J. 123 (2000))

Ninth Circuit Report: Parties Permitted to Expand Judicial Review of Federal Arbitration Awards, TIPS Committee News (A.B.A. Torts & Ins. Prac. Sec., Appellate Advoc. Com., Chicago, Ill.) (Spring 1998) p. 13

Litigating Women's Rights as Human Rights: The Case of United States v. Lanier (1998) 7 S. Cal. Rev. of L. & Women's Stud. 329

Taking the Gendered Realities of Female Offenders Into Account: Downward Departures for Coercion and Duress (1995) 8 Fed. Sentencing Rep. 169