Legal Organizations:
American Bar Assn. 1978 to date; California Bar Assn. 1978 to date; Foothills Bar Assn. 1978 to date; San Diego County Bar Assn. 1978 to date; San Diego Trial Lawyers Assn.; Member, Certified Family Law Specialists Committee of the San Diego County Bar Assn. 1985 to date; Elected Member of Executive Committee of San Deigo County Certified Family Law Specialists 1989 - 1991, 1993 - 1995; Appointed Treasurer 1991 - 1994; Appointed liaison with San Diego County Family Court Services 1991 - 1994; Chair 1995; Fellow International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers 1995 to date.
Author:
Contributer to The Book, The Smart Divorce, By Deborah Moskovitch, 2007; Contributor to The Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company Book, Preventing Malpractice in the Specialties: Family Law, 1995.
Award:
family Law Person of the Year Award presented by the So. Cal. chapter of the AAML, 2008; Best Lawyers of America 2000-2009 San Diego Magazine, Best Lawyers in San Diego, 2001-2009; Martindale Hubbel, AV rating, 1992 to present; San Diego Presiding Judge Family Law committee, 2004-2007; San Diego Superior Court Pro Tem and Mandatory Settlement Conference Judge, 1985 to Present; Judge Norbert Ehrenfreund Award presented by the Judiciary of San Diego County Family Law Court, 2006.
AAML Chapter:
Southern California Chapter, Counsel 2004 - 2009, President, Treasurer, Secretary, Member of Board of Directors, Chair of the Fourth Annual Trial Advocacy Institute, Member of Board of Examiners, Vice-President of Marketing.
CLE Presentations:
Lecturer of Moderator: Annual AAML Institiute of Trial Advocacy, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008; Lecturer and Panel Moderator Annual AAML Seminar, Chicago, 2008; Lecturer or Moderator; San Diego County Bar Assn. Certified Family Law Specialists Seminars, 1990 - 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2007 - 2009; Lecturer: Lawyers Mutual Insurance Co. Seminars, 1993 - 1994; Lecturer: Foresensic Psychiatry Seminar, Univ. of California at San Diego Child Psychiatry Fellows 1989 - 1993 and 1995 - 1997.