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T. Peter Pierce is a shareholder in the
Litigation Department at Richards, Watson & Gershon. Mr. Pierce
is certified as a 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:
- Nordyke v. King, 563 F.3d 439 (9th Cir. 2009)
- 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 by the California State Bar Board
of Governors as the 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.
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A.B., Cornell University, 1986
M.S., Syracuse University, 1987
J.D.,
Tulane Law School, 1992
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