WALTER BOOTH HOWE
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BAR ADMISSIONS
. All Courts in the State of California
. United States District Courts in the Northern and Central Districts of
California
EDUCATION
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Juris Doctor, May 2006
Honors:
. Dean's List, 2005 and 2006
. Robert J. Traynor Honor Society
. Witkin Award for best grade in International Protection of Human
Rights
McGeorge Summer Institute on International Legal Studies:
. Study Fundamental Human Rights in Europe and the United States in
Salzburg, Austria, under U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M.
Kennedy.
University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Master of Arts (Honours) in Philosophy, June 2002
EXPERIENCE
Monterey Family Law
Contract Attorney, December 2009 to April 2010
. Prepare documents and communicate with clients, opposing counsel and
third parties regarding family law and bankruptcy matters.
Kogan & Associates LLP
Associate Attorney in Boutique Business Representation Firm, January 2007
to March 2009
. Research and prepare pleadings and discovery papers for all stages of
litigation.
. Appear at court hearings and depositions.
. Prepare for trial and sit second chair at trial.
. Prepare and review transactional and corporate documents.
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Research Assistant to Professor Linda Carter, October 2005 to May 2006
. Research issues of comparative criminal law in Shari'a and African
Customary Law.
. Help design a module on the extraterritorial application of federal
criminal statutes.
. Research materials for a class on international criminal law.
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Research Assistant to Professor John Cary Sims, June 2005 to May 2006
. Student Research Editor for the Journal of National Security Law &
Policy.
. Research historical French legal ethics for paper delivered to Union
Internationale des Avocats.
Sacramento Public Defender, Conservatorship Division
Clinical Legal Intern, January 2005 to September 2005
. Interview and counsel psychiatric patients regarding writs of habeas
corpus and actions to determine capacity to consent to or refuse
treatment.