 |
 Mr.
Gottesman graduated from the University of California
at Berkeley in 1975, receiving his Bachelor of Arts
degree in history with high honors. He also studied
history at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
Mr. Gottesman received his law degree from the Hastings
College of the Law, University of California, San
Francisco, in 1978, and was admitted to the Order
of the Coif. He received the Milton D. Green Award
given to the top ten students in his class at Hastings
College of the Law.
Mr. Gottesman was a member of the Hastings Law Journal
from 1976 to 1977 and a founder and research editor
of the Hastings International and Comparative Law
Review in 1977 and 1978. He served as an adjunct
professor of constitutional law at the Northrop
University School of Law in Los Angeles (1981-1982).
Mr. Gottesman is also an active member of the Los
Angeles County and Beverly Hills Bar Associations.
Mr. Gottesman is an experienced trial attorney who
has tried and won cases in diverse legal fields.
He has been lead trial counsel in both civil and
criminal cases and has won multi-million dollar
verdicts for his clients. He has represented clients
in major real estate, construction, tax, partnership,
antitrust, brokerage, employment, and insurance
disputes. He is admitted to practice before all
courts of the State of California and the United
States District Court, Central District of California.
In 1996, after obtaining a $5 million jury verdict
in a fraud case, Mr. Gottesman was profiled by the
Los Angeles Daily Journal in an article entitled
"Shakespeare Buff Repels Oppressor's Wrongs." In
2007, the San Fernando Valley Business Journal named
Mr. Gottesman as one of the "Top 25 Lawyers
of the Valley."
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Gottesman was a partner
in the firm of Allen, Matkins, Leck, Gamble & Mallory.
He previously had been associated with the firm
of Kindel & Anderson.
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Other Founding Partners:
Glen Kulik
Kent Mouton
Leonard Siegel
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