As we mentioned a while back, California’s Reporter of Decisions, Ed Jessen, retired earlier this year after 25 years of service. The Supreme Court has now appointed Lawrence W. Striley of Colorado as his successor, following a nationwide search. According to this press release, Mr. Striley has over 18 years of experience in the legal profession and is an active member of the Colorado and Wyoming State Bars. He also has twelve years of experience in legal publishing, having served “as a director of content development, an editorial manager, and a legal editor at LexisNexis.” While at LexisNexis, part of his job was to manage “the printing and publication of the official versions of opinions from California” and several other states. Given that background, Mr. Striley’s transition to his new role as Reporter of Decisions should be a smooth one. However, the new role may present some novel challenges as well, not least of which is to update the California Style Manual, aka the Yellow Book.
On the personal side, we note that Mr. Striley describes himself on his Avvo profile as a “frustrated blue-water sailor.” Here’s hoping that, with his relocation to the San Francisco Bay Area, a sailor’s paradise, he will be frustrated no more.
