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Admitted: 1984, California and U.S. District Court, Northern, Eastern and Central Districts of California; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Fourth and Ninth Circuits �

Law School: University of California at Davis (J.D., 1984)

College: Cornell University (B.A., 1979)

Birth Date and Place: January 3, 1957, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Practice Areas: Civil Litigation, Civil Rights, Consumer Protection, Class Actions; Securities; Personal Injury, Product Liability, Breach of Contract

Additional Information: See: Lucy Chi v. University of Southern California, et al.; In Re Pacific Fertility Center Litigation

Editor, UC Davis Law Review, 1983-1984. Author: "Legitimate Businesses Can Behave Badly," Business Law Today, May/June 1998; "Toward Lome III: Perfecting the European Community's African Partnership," 16 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 459 (1984). Co-Author: "Recent Developments in Class Action Litigation: Mandatory Certification in Complex Securities and Mass Tort Cases," Inside Litig., Sept. 1992. Guest Lecturer, University of California School of Law, Davis, 1996 and 1997. Panelist: American Bar Association, 1992-1998; American Corporate Counsel Association, 1995; San Francisco Business Roundtable, 1995; U.C. Berkeley Asian Law Symposium, 1995; UC Davis University Extension Public Policy Conference, 1996; California Fair Employment Housing Commission, Civil Rights Symposium, 1996; American Society of Corporate Secretaries, 1996. State Bar of California; American Bar Association(Member, Section of Business Law, Newsletter Editor and Subcommittee Chair; Co-Chair, Task Force on Rule Revision and Litigation Reform; ABA/ACCA Corporate Practice Conference, Chair, 1996; Class Actions Subcommittee, Chair, Business and Corporate Litigation Committee, 1992-1996; Past Vice-Chair, Young Lawyer's Division). �