Honors and Awards:

• The media frequently quotes Mark, and he has been named for four consecutive years to the Southern California Su­per Lawyers® list. He has also been a featured speaker, panelist and moderator at legal conferences hosted by Duke University School of Law, Taxpayers Against Fraud, the Institute of Law and Economic Policy, the Rand Institute, the Claremont University Drucker and Ito Business School, the U.S. Department of Justice, the FDIC, the U.S. Department of Education, the Beverly Hills Bar Association and the National Association of Legal Professionals. At Duke University School of Law, Mark served as a staff and editorial board member of the Duke Law Journal and received the Hervey M. Johnson Writing Prize for the best law review article. The article was later cited in court opinions and other law review articles that led to an amendment of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

Special Licenses/Certifications:

• Licensed in: CA, DC Admitted to Practice Before: U.S. Supreme Court of California, the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania; U.S. Court of Appeals for the First, Fifth, Ninth and D.C. Circuits; U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Western District of Washington, Central, Northern, Southern and Eastern Districts of California, Districts of Colorado, Massachussetts and Utah

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Mark’s passion for writing has lead to numerous published non-legal com­mentary, features and articles for daily, national and local newspapers and regional magazines. Awarded funding from the Ford Foundation, he wrote a series of articles on human rights issues for several international newspapers. Additionally, he has published more than two dozen legally-related commentary articles in publications that include: Los Angeles Real Estate Journal, Los Angeles Lawyer, San Francisco Daily Journal, the Duke Law Journal, the Banking Law Review, Practising Law Institute’s Securities Law Handbook, the Consumer Lawyers Advocate magazine, Legal Times, Texas Lawyer, New Jersey Lawyer, Manhattan Lawyer and Irish Times.  For years, he has written as a featured business law columnist in the Los Angeles Daily Journal. He also appeared in published symposia and was featured on the cover of Los Angeles Lawyer magazine in connection with a lead article on credit default swaps, which that magazine’s editors solicited from him based on his work as an advocate for securities and consumer fraud victims.  Mark is an elected member of the American Law Institute, serves on the Board of Governors of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, is an appointed member of the Appellate Courts Committee of the Los Angeles Bar Association and its Antitrust and Unfair Business Practice section. He is also a member of Taxpayers Against Fraud and its Dodd-Frank SEC Working Group, the American Association for Justice, the Association of Former U.S. Attorneys and Assistant U.S. Attorneys for the Central District of California, the National Association of Shareholder and Consumer Attorneys and the American Bar Association White Collar Crime Committee.

Verdicts and Settlements:

• Mark has represented both defendants and plaintiffs and has as lead counsel, or one of the primary counsels, secured or been instrumental in helping secure settlements and judgments of close to $1 billion in favor of clients.

Other Outstanding Achievements:

Educational Background:

• J.D., Duke University School of Law, 1988 M.A., Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, 1981 B.A., Oberlin College, 1980