|
T. Peter Pierce is a shareholder and
Assistant Chair of the Litigation Department. Mr. Pierce is one
of fewer than 250 attorneys designated as a Certified Specialist
in Appellate Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.
Mr. Pierce has represented public agencies and other clients before
the United States Supreme Court, the California Supreme Court, the
U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the California Court of Appeal,
and various trial courts at the federal and state levels. The cases
Mr. Pierce has managed from inception through the appellate process
have involved land use and zoning issues, CEQA, constitutional law,
telecommunications law, inverse condemnation issues, and elections
law. Reported decisions in Mr. Pierce's cases include:
- City of Rancho Palos Verdes v. Abrams, 544 U.S. 113
(2005)
- Abrams v. City of Rancho Palos Verdes, 354 F.3d 1094
(9th Cir. 2004)
- City of West Hollywood v. 1112 Investment Co., 105
Cal.App.4th 1134 (2003)
- Nordyke v. King (Alameda County), 27 Cal.4th 875 (2002)
- Echevarrieta v. City of Rancho Palos Verdes, 86 Cal.App.4th
472 (1998)
- California Rifle & Pistol Assn. v. City of West Hollywood,
66 Cal.App.4th 1302 (1998)
- Private Industry Council v. State of California, 57
Cal.App.4th 1190 (1997)
- Friedman v. City of Beverly Hills, 47 Cal.App.4th 436
(1996)
Mr. Pierce has also authored or supervised a number of amicus briefs
on behalf of the League of California Cities in several reported
cases.
Mr. Pierce was recently appointed by the California State Bar Board
of Governors as the Vice-Chair of the State Bar Committee on Appellate
Courts, the Committee on which he has served since 2006. He is a
contributing author of the CEB treatise, California Administrative
Mandamus (3d ed.), and is a consulting editor of CEB's California
Civil Appellate Practice (3d ed). Mr. Pierce also is an adjunct
professor at the University of Southern California Law School. He
has served as a volunteer in Los Angeles County's Temporary Judge
Program.
Outside of his law practice, Mr. Pierce is an Advisory Trustee
to the ALS Association, Greater Los Angeles Chapter, a non-profit
organization assisting those afflicted with Lou Gehrig's Disease.
Mr. Pierce served as a Trustee of the chapter from 2002-2005 and
regularly represents the chapter in meetings with members of Congress.
Immediately following law school, Mr. Pierce served as a law clerk
to the Honorable Marcel Livaudais, Jr. on the United States District
Court in New Orleans. Before attending law school, Mr. Pierce was
a broadcast journalist.
|
|
A.B., Cornell University, 1986
M.S., Syracuse University, 1987
J.D.,
Tulane Law School, 1992
|
