Check in here if you are a lawyer. . . [Archive]

oaklander

03-23-2009, 12:49 AM

Just checking to see who here is a lawyer. For future use, it might be good for us to keep a list (for referring clients, if nothing else).

Just state your practice area(s) and location.

I'll start:

San Francisco / Oakland
Mass Torts / Some gun law

macadamizer

03-23-2009, 12:37 PM

I am a lawyer, but I practice intellectual property litigation, so I am not much help around here.

Gryff

03-23-2009, 01:15 PM

Wow...a lawyer thread with censorship. Interesting contradiction.

edwardm

03-23-2009, 01:50 PM

Yeah, I'm a lawyer. How the hell this happened, I'm still trying to figure. :)

Practice area - transactional law and software licensing; some minor criminal work.

Progressing into firearms law.

CCWFacts

03-23-2009, 01:54 PM

Shouldn't there be several more options:

"No degree is necessary to practice law on the Internet."
"No, I learned everything I need to know by being a pro se plaintiff"
"Yes, in fact I am an attorney and I'm helping the Brady Campaign defend the Second Amendment. My name is Gary Gorski."

djandj

03-23-2009, 02:00 PM

David Salvin
South Orange County
15 years private criminal defense.
Concentrating in : DUI, Drugs, Domestic Violence, weapons cases
Lifetime NRA
Lifetime gun collector/shooter
(949)305-6400
www.Alawyer4u.com

tgriffin

03-23-2009, 02:21 PM

I am a lawyer, but I practice intellectual property litigation, so I am not much help around here.

Any chance you know people at Winston & Strawn in the city? I have a friend who is a partner specializing in IP there.

oaklander

03-23-2009, 02:50 PM

Wow...a lawyer thread with censorship. Interesting contradiction.

I want to keep this thread useful - so I asked the mods to clean up the "off topic" posts in this thread. Some of my posts got deleted too, since I was the one who kind of took it off topic in the first place.

EDIT: we all started posting random stuff about cats - if anyone is wondering why the thread got cleaned up!!!

Moving forward, let's keep this thread ON-topic. There's a real need for lawyers for the cause, even if they don't do "gun law," they can help in other ways. So it's good to know exactly who here is a lawyer.

:D

edwardm

03-23-2009, 03:58 PM

No, I don't. But I always like to yak with the hardcore IP wonks. They're usually pretty interesting, since in this area that usually means some sort of lawyer/tech geek hybrid, like me. :)

Any chance you know people at Winston & Strawn in the city? I have a friend who is a partner specializing in IP there.

RandyD

03-23-2009, 04:31 PM

I am an attorney practicing law in San Diego as a sole practitioner. I have been licensed in California since June 1993. I am a civil litigator (personal injury, breach of contract, real property disputes) and I also handle a lot of family law related matters including restraining orders. I am a NRA Benefactor Member.

RudyN

03-23-2009, 04:44 PM

I am not a lawyer, however I had to work with them for 40+ years. :p I worked for the Judicial system (Superior Court and DCA)

oaklander

03-23-2009, 04:57 PM

Welcome again!

:D

I am an attorney practicing law in San Diego as a sole practitioner. I have been licensed in California since June 1993. I am a civil litigator (personal injury, breach of contract, real property disputes) and I also handle a lot of family law related matters including restraining orders. I am a NRA Benefactor Member.

macadamizer

03-23-2009, 05:19 PM

Any chance you know people at Winston & Strawn in the city? I have a friend who is a partner specializing in IP there.

I don't think I know anyone there. I know some Winston folks from the LA office, but I don't think I know anyone in SF. But it's a small world, you never know when that situation might change!

Meplat

03-23-2009, 05:33 PM

edwardm

03-23-2009, 07:38 PM

Hmm. I may suffer partial CRS right now, but I think another 2.5 years of practice in CA will qualify me for non-tested admission to the Texas state bar. That might be neat, assuming I'm remembering correctly. :)

Or maybe I should go sit for the Nevada bar and do NFA stuff there.

No degree is necessary to practice law anywhere in CA.:p

hoffmang

03-23-2009, 08:14 PM

I'm a para-lawyer!

-Gene

Lex Arma

03-23-2009, 09:14 PM

I practice criminal law (Weapons Cases).:eek:
I practice civil rights law. :thumbsup:
I practice family law. :43:
I teach Constitutional Law. :chris:
I play slack key and blues guitar, oops, that's not legal work.:cool:

Liberty1

03-23-2009, 09:16 PM

I arrest you. Then you get to meet a lawyer. :p

Gene, can I write the citation when you are ready to get arrested for something?:D

hoffmang

03-23-2009, 09:19 PM

I create Constitutional Law. :chris:

Fixed it for you.

-Gene

oaklander

03-23-2009, 09:31 PM

Where's Jason?

Paging Jason!

:D

EDIT: I hear he's doin' some lawyering as we speak!!! Woot!

artherd

03-24-2009, 12:46 AM

I teach law to Deputy Attorney Generals...

;)

mymonkeyman

03-24-2009, 01:01 AM

Patent Litigation - Palo Alto.

JasonDavis

04-03-2009, 08:20 AM

Ditto. Firearms litigation and regulatory issues, civil litigation, business litigation, trade secrets, etc. It's all good!

ohsmily

04-03-2009, 09:04 AM

Criminal Defense
Sacramento (and surrounding counties).

till44

04-03-2009, 10:27 AM

Give me three years, I start this Aug.

djandj

04-03-2009, 10:59 AM

Ditto. Firearms litigation and regulatory issues, civil litigation, business litigation, trade secrets, etc. It's all good!

Jason - (no PM's - what's the deal) I'm just down the way from you in Mission Viejo. You probably shoot over at Oh Target. Contact me and we'll get together. (just lawyer to lawyer - you know b/c no one else will be seen in public with us!)

JasonDavis

04-03-2009, 11:13 AM

Jason - (no PM's - what's the deal) I'm just down the way from you in Mission Viejo. You probably shoot over at Oh Target. Contact me and we'll get together. (just lawyer to lawyer - you know b/c no one else will be seen in public with us!)

Sounds good! Shoot me over your contact info (jason@calgunlawyers.com). FYI I don't take PMs because people have a tendency to discuss A/C Privileged info in these thinking that they are actually private. And, there is a very specific reason I do not take PMs, which I hope to make public very soon.

RomanDad

04-03-2009, 11:50 AM

Yes.... Southern California.

Whiskey_Sauer

04-03-2009, 12:09 PM

All right, I'll come out of the closet.

I'm in private practice, doing 95% civil/commercial litigation, in San Francisco. And I'll take a guess that I'm one of the few people around here who have actually tried gun cases as a prosecutor, in a former life.

AMDG

04-28-2009, 06:16 PM

Ok, I'll own up too.

10 years now in large firm corporate, securities, finance and real estate (transactional only) in Los Angeles.

Feel free to PM me with any questions, etc.

retired

04-28-2009, 06:39 PM

Well, I went to Southwestern for 2yrs. a long time ago and stopped enjoying it, so I stopped and did what Liberty1 does now instead.:)

Over the years, I occasionally thought about returning, but once married with kids, just didn't have the $$.

If I had, it would be 35yrs.:eek:

Shotgun Man

04-28-2009, 06:44 PM

Against my better judgment, I'll fess up. Just don't hold it against me or report to me the State Bar!

14 years, criminal defense, socal.

I once successfully defended an AW case on constitutional grounds. I prevailed pre-trial so no precedent.

To Whiskey Sauer, I've tried gun cases in front of juries. One time a cop planted a gun on the suspect. Poor kid. He was convicted despite my best efforts. You weren't the prosecutor on that case, were you? :)

Cruising calguns makes one a more proficient practitioner.

Sam

04-28-2009, 08:49 PM

Give me three years, I start this Aug.

I'm the same, where are you going?

JF99

04-28-2009, 09:31 PM

Transactions lawyer in Silicon Valley. Gearing up to start out on my own after many years of big law firm and in-house practice.

Admitted in NY and D.C., waiting for results from CA bar exam. May 15 is the big day. . .

Josh

ohsmily

04-28-2009, 09:43 PM

I know one Calgun member who is a prosecutor. He takes a pretty conservative view of all of our efforts and is somewhat dubious of some of the arguments in support of magazine rebuilds and other issues.

Legasat

04-28-2009, 10:12 PM

I'm not a lawyer, but the more I get involved in this movement, the more I wish I had made some different choices earlier on in my life...

wellfedirishman

04-28-2009, 11:15 PM

IP Attorney, specifically patents. In-house at a large software company.

Just came from a BigLaw patent department in Palo Alto.

CnCFunFactory

04-29-2009, 12:38 AM

I am not an attorney, however I did stay at a holiday inn express last night.:D

nicki

04-29-2009, 04:13 AM

I am impressed by the number of lawyers we actually have on this board.

I hope that maybe we can create Calgun tribes all across the state.

Seems to me we have alot of potential chiefs(Lawyers) and lots of braves(non lawyers who would do grunt work) to really shake things up.

Nicki

GunSlinga

04-29-2009, 09:31 AM

I may not be a lawyer, but once when "I was gambling in Havana, I took a little risk..."

Also, note the following Q&A:

Q: What do you call a lawyer with an 80 IQ?

A: "Your Honor."

Just humor. No disrespect intended to any judges who may be are lurking...

hoffmang

04-29-2009, 11:56 PM

Just humor. No disrespect intended to any judges who may be lurking...

I'm quite confident that we are visited by quite a few of the honorable on the bench.

I'm routinely amazed by the lurkers on CGN...

-Gene

tankerman

04-30-2009, 01:23 AM

Whiskey_Sauer

04-30-2009, 10:37 AM

To Whiskey Sauer, I've tried gun cases in front of juries. One time a cop planted a gun on the suspect. Poor kid. He was convicted despite my best efforts. You weren't the prosecutor on that case, were you? :)

Let's see, cop planting gun on suspect? You'll have to be more specific than that. ;)