Honors and Awards:

• Honors Program, Pi Gamma Mu Honor Society, Psi Chi Honor Society
• Participant, Cardozo National Moot Court Competition
• Psi Chi
• Pi Gamma Mu
• First Place, Client Counseling Competition, 1983
•  Finalist, Moot Court Honors Program, 1984
• USC Representative, Cardozo National Moot Court Competition, 1985

Special Licenses/Certifications:

• Criminal Law, State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Member, White Collar Crime Committee, ABA.
• Master Member, Los Angeles Criminal Justice American Inn of Court
• Chairman, Vice Chairman and Education Representative, State Bar of California
• Member, Criminal Law Advisory Commission, State Bar of California, 2006 - 2010
• Member, Master, Los Angeles Criminal Justice Inn of Court
• Member, Association of Federal Defense Attorneys
• Member,  National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
• Member, Rules of Criminal Procedure and Evidence Committee, American Bar Associations
• Member, White Collar Crime Committee, American Bar Associations
• Member, Los Angeles County Bar Associations
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1985
• U.S. District Court Central District of California, 1985
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of California, 1985
• U.S. District Court Southern District of California, 1985
• U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 1985
• California, 1985
• Nevada, 2001

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Officer and Director, Or HaChaim Hebrew Academy
• Assistant Scoutmaster, Boy Scouts of America
• Shofar Award, Jewish Committee on Scouting
• Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Identity Conservation and Equivalence Conservation: A Question of Developmental Priority, Child Development., 1982
• Performance of Downs Syndrome Individuals on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, American Journal of Mental Deficiency., 1982
• Criminal Law News, State Bar of California., 1995

Verdicts and Settlements:

• United States v. Lawson - obtained guilty verdicts against tax preparer for tax crimes.
• United States v. Pratte - obtained guilty verdicts against owner of retirement facility for loan fraud.
• United States v. Tyler - obtained guilty verdicts against officer of company engaging in securities fraud and ponzi scheme.
• United States v. Akin - obtained verdicts of guilty in nationwide insurance fraud case. Led task force of more than fifty personnel from Internal Revenue Service, Postal Inspection Service, Interstate Commerce Commission and Department of Transportation.
• United States v. Danny Means - obtained not guilty verdict for client charged with bribing an IRS Revenue Officer.
• Kleinman v. American States Insurance Company - obtained $7.96 million verdict against major insurance company.

Representative Clients:

• Governments of France and Hong Kong (as a magistrate).
• United States Government
• Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company
• General American Life Insurance Co.
• Metropolitan Insurance Company
• Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies
• St. Ives Laboratories, Inc.
• E.F. Hutton and Company, Inc.
• American Express
• Prudential-Bache Securities, Inc.
• Makar Properties, Inc.
• Chubb Insurance Group
• Pan American World Airlines, Inc.
• American Airlines, Inc.
• The Flying Tiger Line, Inc.
• Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
• Mercedes Benz of North America
• Koch Industries
• Goldrich & Kest Industries, LLC
• British Petroleum
• California Pharmacists Association, ARCO
• Moore v. Kayport Package Express, Inc., 885 F.2d 531 (9th Cir.), 1989
• Commodities Futures Trading Commission v. Topworth International, 205 F.3d 1107 (9th Cir.), 1999
• Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Topworth International, Ltd, 205 F.3d 1107 (9th Cir.), 1999
• Best Products, Inc. v. Superior Court, 119 Cal. App. 4th 1181, 15 Cal. Rptr. 3d 154, 2004
• United States v. Hagege, 437 F.3d 943 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 549 U.S. 818, 2006
• United States v. Hagege, 437 F.3d 943 (9th Cir.), 2006
• Independent Living Center of Southern California v. Shewry, 543 F.3d 1047 (9th Cir.), 2008
• Independent Living Center of Southern California v. Shewry, 590 F.3d 725, 2009
• In Re: Medi-Cal Reimbursement Rate Reduction Litigation, 652 F. Supp. 2d 1378 (J.P.M.L.), 2009
• Independent Living Center of Southern California v. Maxwell-Jolly, 572 F.3d 644 (9th Cir.), 2009
• Managed Pharmacy Care v. Maxwell-Jolly, 603 F. Supp. 2d 1230 (C.D. Cal.), 2009
• Independent Living Center of Southern California v. Shewry, 543 F.3d 1050 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 129 S. Ct. 2828, 2009

Educational Background:

• University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., Cum Laude & Dean's List, 1981