The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is an American investor-owned utility (IOU). The company is headquartered at 300 Lakeside Drive,in Oakland,California. PG&E provides natural gas and electricity to 5.2 million households in the northern two-thirds of California,from Bakersfield and northern Santa Barbara County,almost to the Oregon and Nevada state lines.
James Howard Marshall II was an American billionaire businessman,academic,and government official. He was involved with and invested in the petroleum industry via academic,government and commercial endeavors. He owned 16% of Koch Industries. Marshall was married to model and celebrity Anna Nicole Smith during the last 14 months of his life. His estate became the subject of protracted litigation,which was reviewed by the Supreme Court in Marshall v. Marshall and Stern v. Marshall. The court kept the will and testament intact and substantially all of the assets in Marshall's estate wound up in trusts for the benefit of his daughter-in-law,Elaine Tettemer Marshall,and her family.
Howrey LLP was a global law firm that practiced antitrust,global litigation and intellectual property law. At its peak Howrey had more than 700 attorneys in 17 locations worldwide.
Cecil Francis Poole was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit,a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California,and a United States Attorney for the Northern District of California. He was the first African American to serve as a United States Attorney,the first African American to serve as a Judge of the Northern District of California and the second African American to serve as a Judge of the Ninth Circuit.
Melvin Mouron Belli was a United States lawyer and writer known as "The King of Torts" and by insurance companies as "Melvin Bellicose". He had many celebrity clients,including Zsa Zsa Gabor,Errol Flynn,Chuck Berry,Muhammad Ali,The Rolling Stones,Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker,Martha Mitchell,Maureen Connolly,Lana Turner,Tony Curtis,and Mae West. During his legal career,he won over $600 million in damages for his clients. He was also the attorney for Jack Ruby,who shot Lee Harvey Oswald days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP,also known as Pillsbury,is a full-service law firm with a particular focus on the energy,financial services,real estate and technology industries. Based in the world's major financial,technology and energy centers,Pillsbury counsels clients on global business,regulatory and litigation matters.
Terry Calvani is a lawyer,former government official and university professor. Appointed by President Ronald Reagan,he served one term as Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. He was also a Member of the governing board of the Competition Authority of Ireland,where he held the criminal investigations portfolio. He has taught antitrust law at Vanderbilt University School of Law,Duke University School of Law,the Harvard Law School,Trinity College Dublin,Cornell Law School,Columbia Law School and University of California,Hastings College of Law. He retired from the practice of antitrust law with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in April 2019. He is currently a senior advisor to Brunswick Group LLC.
SONICblue Incorporated (NASDAQ:SBLU) was a public company based in Santa Clara,California. The firm was a manufacturer of home audio/video equipment with an estimated revenue of $100M - $250M and approximately 700 employees.
Vaughn Richard Walker is an American lawyer who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California from 1989 to 2011. Walker presided over the original trial in Hollingsworth v. Perry,where he found California's Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional.
Jeffrey Laurence Bleich is an American lawyer and diplomat from California.
Richard Gus Seeborg is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He formerly served as a United States Magistrate Judge in the same district.
Winthrop,Stimson,Putnam &Roberts was a prominent New York City law firm that traced its origins to a law partnership formed there in 1868. It merged with the San Francisco-based law firm Pillsbury,Madison &Sutro in 2001. The merged firm subsequently became Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman in 2005.
Paul Jeffrey Watford is an American lawyer who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2012 to 2023. In February 2016,The New York Times identified Watford as a potential Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia.
William Horsley Orrick III is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He had a long career as a lawyer in private practice in San Francisco,and served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice during the Obama administration.
Barbara Parker is city attorney of Oakland,California.
Vince Girdhari Chhabria is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and formerly a deputy city attorney at the San Francisco City Attorney's Office.
Jeffrey Isaac Ehrlich is an American lawyer and author,known for handling landmark appeals in the United States Supreme Court and the California Supreme Court. He is co-author of the influential Thomson Reuters treatise on insurance litigation,and editor-in-chief of Advocate,the most widely circulated trial-bar magazine in the United States. He and his son,Clinton Ehrlich,are also known for exonerating Sgt. Raymond Lee Jennings,an Iraq War veteran who served 11 years of a life sentence for murdering teenager Michelle O'Keefe.
Paul Singh Grewal is an American attorney working as chief legal officer at Coinbase. Previously,Grewal was vice president and deputy general counsel at Facebook,and is also a former U.S. magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
John Montague Steadman is a Senior associate judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. He was appointed to the court in 1985 and took senior status in 2004.
This page lists notable alumni,students,and faculty of the University of California College of the Law,San Francisco,a public law school in San Francisco,California.
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