About what?

It’s about setting a strategy, implementing it and winning in the market. It’s advocacy in the marketplace rather than the courtroom. As a California lawyer and former litigator with excellent law firms, I know what it takes to build a case and to win. And that is what I seek to do for my clients.

After a litigation career, I became an editor for a law publishing imprint of what is now Thomson Reuters, Legal -- a global provider of legal and regulatory information and technologies. I worked on author acquisitions, product development and became the company’s first manager of strategic markets and government relations.

Initiating alliances with the Foundation of the State Bar of California, California Women Lawyers, California law schools and others, I worked to increase sales and promote visibility. In these relationships I developed multi-leveled campaigns for direct mail, events, scholarships and other promotional activities.

After a major acquisition, I became a public relations manager in corporate communications and was tasked with both internal and external communications projects.

My internal communications work included serving as editor-in-chief of two major internal publications for the North America and global employee base of 20,000.  On the external communications side, I managed entertainment marketing in feature film and prime time television productions including a tie-in promotion with Buena Vista / Touchstone Pictures, major placements on Law & Order and other shows like Ally McBeal, The Practice and Boston Legal. These placements were very valuable to the company’s brands and services.

From 2004-2006, I served as vice president of corporate communications & strategic marketing for a small technology firm. I was responsible for all communications and marketing including branding, CLE programming and thought leadership, sales support, collateral, trade shows and a custom magazine for 12,000 corporate counsel. I created tag lines, service marks and protected them through registration with the USPTO.

For the past several years, I have helped legal technology companies and law firms market their services by enhancing their presence on the web, writing and directing creation of websites, ghost blogging and providing public relations services.

About particulars.

J.D., University of San Francisco, School of Law
Associate Articles Editor, University of San Francisco Law Review
Comment Author: The Constitutionality of Limitations on Corporate Contributions to Ballot Measure Campaigns, 13 U.S.F. L.Rev. 145 (1978)

B.A., Honors, University of California, Santa Cruz
Honors in History

Admitted to State Bar of California
Admitted to United States Supreme Court

Extern law clerk to Associate Justice Stanley Mosk (dec.), California Supreme Court
Extern law clerk to Judge William W Schwarzer, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Member, ABA
ABA Silver Gavel Awards Standing Committee 2005-2008 (ABA Presidential Appointment)
ABA Silver Gavel Awards Screening Committee 1997-2005, 2009-present
Member Public Relations Society of America
Member San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center Auxiliary 1997-present