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Mitchell E. Abbott is a shareholder in
the Litigation Department at Richards, Watson & Gershon and
Chair of the firm's Appellate Law Practice Group. Mr. Abbott is
currently one of fewer than 250 lawyers in the state designated
as a Certified Specialist in Appellate Law by the State Bar of California
Board of Legal Specialization. For more than 30 years, he has specialized
in the representation of municipalities and other public entities
in a variety of cases at both the trial and appellate level, and
in both the state and federal courts. He has handled many constitutional
cases arising under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the federal
constitution, as well as land use cases and disputes arising under
the California Environmental Quality Act. Mr. Abbott has also handled
litigation and appeals in public financing cases, including validating
actions challenging the formation of redevelopment agencies and
other districts, taxpayers' actions challenging the validity and
fairness of local assessment districts, and a variety of other cases
involving challenges to local enactments under Propositions 13 and
218.
While at the University of Virginia Law School, he was Notes Editor
of the Virginia Journal of International Law. He is a member
of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and of the State
Bar Board of Legal Specialization's Appellate Law Advisory Committee,
and he is a past chair of the State Bar of California's Standing
Committee on Appellate Courts. He is a contributing author of the
CEB treatise, California Civil Appellate Practice (3d ed.)
and of CEB's California Administrative Mandamus (3d ed). He is a
consulting editor of Bancroft Whitney's California Civil Practice
regarding governmental immunities, and is co-author of the chapter
on "Privileges and the Work Product Doctrine" in California Civil
Discovery Practice (3d ed.). In addition to his legal career, Mr.
Abbott serves on the Board of Directors of Los Angeles Music Week
and is a past Moderator of First Congregational Church of Los Angeles.
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A.B., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
University of California, Davis, 1972
J.D., University of Virginia
Law
School, 1975
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