I graduated from the University of California, Berkely, with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1976. I received my Juris Doctor from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, in Sacramento, California, in 1979. I was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1979, and to the United States District Courts, Eastern and Northern Districts of California, when I started representing clie...

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I graduated from the University of California, Berkely, with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1976. I received my Juris Doctor from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, in Sacramento, California, in 1979. I was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1979, and to the United States District Courts, Eastern and Northern Districts of California, when I started representing clients in bankruptcy, in 1982.