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Admitted: 1984, California; 1985, Wisconsin; 1988, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1990, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California

Law School: Golden Gate University, J.D., with highest honors, 1984; University of Wisconsin-Madison, LL.M., 1987

College: University of California at Davis, B.A., 1981

Birth Date and Place: Syracuse, New York, March 14, 1959

Practice Areas: Plaintiff Class Actions; Consumer Fraud; Complex Litigation; Antitrust Law; Commercial Litigation; Products Liability; Civil Practice; Trial Practice

Additional Information: See: Andrea Crissman v. Ethicon, Inc.

Bar Association of San Francisco; State Bar of California. Biography: Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award for Contracts/Construction Law. Editor, Golden Gate University Law Review, 1983-1984. Judicial Clerk to the Hon. Fern M. Smith, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 1988-1989; Judicial Clerk to Hon. Alfonso J. Zirpoli, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 1989-1990. Author: "Representing the Institutionalized Mariel Cuban," 1987 Wisconsin Law Review 455, 1987; "Electronic Detection Devices, A Search by any Other Name," 13 Golden Gate University Law Review 177, 1983. Co-Author: "Handling Federal Discovery," James Publishing (yearly edition). Clinical Instructor, University of Wisconsin, School of Law, 1984-1987.