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Anthony Murray
Partner

Anthony Murray practices in civil and criminal law at both the trial and appellate levels. He has handled and tried a broad range of cases, among them fraud, breach of contract and corporate litigation, including derivative suits against corporations and their directors and officers; white-collar criminal, water rights, product liability and other tort cases; securities cases; real estate litigation; trusts and estates litigation; employment suits; biotechnology litigation; patent and copyright infringement; and trade secret cases, as well as professional liability, land use and a wide variety of other kinds of complex commercial litigation.

His principal clients have included Bertelsmann A.G. and its former chairman and CEO Thomas Middelhoff, Corning Nichols Institute, Texas Eastern Corp., Petrolane, Inc., Long Beach Unified School District, Eastman, Inc., Mono County, Nickel Enterprises, Jordache, Inc., Kyocera and Sears Roebuck.

Mr. Murray has lectured for the California Continuing Education of the Bar, The Rutter Group, and other continuing legal education programs. He has contributed to many law reviews and other professional journals.

Publications/Speeches

Author, Umpires, Activists, and Judges: How Would Holmes Decide Today?, The United States Law Week (March 27, 2012)

Media Mentions

Firm to Settle Suit Over Deadly La Conchita Slide By Catherine Saillant, Los Angeles Times
La Conchita Suit Settled, But It's Not Over By Amy Silverberg, Santa Barbara Independent
La Conchita Civil Trial Opens With Statements By Raul Hernandez, Ventura County Star

Affiliations

President, State Bar of California (1982-1983)
Member, Board of Governors, State Bar of California (1980-1983)
Other State Bar positions: Advisor, Litigation Section; Chair, Executive Committee, Criminal Law Section; Member, Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluations (1978-1979); Member, Disciplinary Board (1975-1978)
Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers, and Member Board of Regents (1995-1999)
Life Member, Fellows of the American Bar Foundation
President, California Appellate Project (1983-Present)
Member, Various Bar Associations
Member, Judicial Council of California (1984-1986)

Distinctions

Former Adjunct Professor, Trial Advocacy, Loyola Law School (1979–1986)
Former Lecturer, College of Advocacy, University of California, Hastings Center for Trial and Appellate Advocacy
Named "Best Lawyer" in Commercial Litigation and Criminal Defense: White Collar, The Best Lawyers in America, published by Woodward White, Inc. (1995-2012)
Named in "Southern California Super Lawyers" in Business Litigation, Criminal Defense: White Collar and Appellate, a Thomson Reuters business (2004-2012);
Listed in the Top 100 Southern California Super Lawyers (2004)
Named in Who's Who Legal USA - Commercial Litigation 2007-2009, published by Law Business Research Limited
Distinguished Achievement Award, Loyola Law School (1982)
Highest "AV Preeminent (5 out of 5)" Professional Rating, Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory

Loyola Law School, J.D., 1964

California State University at Los Angeles, B.A.

California, 1965

U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court

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