Handle criminal appeals for indigent clients.

Nationwide practice specializing in consumer class action defense and the defense of financial institutions -- including banks, credit card issuers, mortgage lenders, and consumer finance companies -- in litigation involving state and federal consumer finance laws. Regular contributor to California Consumer Finance Litigation, www.consumerfinancelitigation.com, reporting on recent developments and providing analysis of important finance topics related to banking, credit cards, mortgages, and consumer finance statutes and regulations.

Manage wide variety of complex litigation cases, including consumer product class action, patent and trademark infringement, and commercial arbitration.Draft briefs, including dispositive motions; research legal issues; engineer case strategy; take depositions; work with experts; wide-ranging client contact; discovery.Extensive pro bono experience: Through special California habeas corpus statute (PC 1473.5), secured freedom of woman who had served 20 years in prison for the homicides of her abusers and was unable, at trial, to present expert testimony on the effects of battering; extensive fact investigation; managed expert and drafting of key expert report; monthly client contact; drafted significant portions of habeas petition.Successfully resolved excessive force case against municipal police department; took numerous depositions; drafted and argued motions; extensive client contact.Drafted two habeas corpus petitions for client wrongfully convicted on sole basis of faulty identification by child victim (who has now recanted).Assisted in drafting of successful habeas corpus petition on behalf of Rick Walker, who was wrongfully convicted; successfully argued for per diem compensation before the State of California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board.

Reviewed legal memoranda relating to a wide variety of civil and criminal motions; conducted research; attended oral argument; recommended disposition of hundreds of motions; drafted orders; balanced heavy caseload; supervised externs; served as elbow clerk during the six-week criminal securities fraud bench trial..