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T. Peter Pierce is a shareholder and
Assistant Chair of the Litigation Department in our Los Angeles
and San Francisco offices. 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:
- Kay v. City of Rancho Palos Verdes, 504 F.3d 803 (9th
Cir. 2007)
- 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 (effective September 2008) by
the California State Bar of Governors as Vice-Chair of the State
Bar Committee on Appellate Courts, the Committee on which he has
served since 2006. He is contributing author of the following CEB
treatises: California Civil Appellate Practice (3d ed.), California
Administrative Mandamus (3d ed.), and California Civil Write Practice
(4th ed.). Mr. Pierce also is an adjunct professor at the University
of Southern California Law School where he teaches a litigation
class. 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.
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A.B., Cornell University, 1986
M.S., Syracuse University, 1987
J.D.,
Tulane Law School, 1992
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