Greg’s breadth of experience as a civil and criminal trial attorney and Superior Court Judge allows him to represent clients in virtually every area of the law. While on the Superior Court he presided over more than one thousand trials in civil, criminal, family, and probate cases, and resolved thousands of pretrial motions, applications, and petitions. Prominent civil trials involved disputes over trade secret theft, the infliction of serious personal injury, breach of contract, wrongful termination of employment and discrimination, and government seizure of private property. As a civil litigator prior to his appointment to the bench he focused on business and intellectual property litigation, and as a federal prosecutor he headed the San Jose branch of the U. S. Attorney’s Office. His knowledge of the law and the court system allows him to offer clients a unique and invaluable perspective on their litigation needs.

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Greg’s breadth of experience as a civil and criminal trial attorney and Superior Court Judge allows him to represent clients in virtually every area of the law. While on the Superior Court he presided over more than one thousand trials in civil, criminal, family, and probate cases, and resolved thousands of pretrial motions, applications, and petitions. Prominent civil trials involved disputes over trade secret theft, the infliction of serious personal injury, breach of contract, wrongful termination of employment and discrimination, and government seizure of private property. As a civil litigator prior to his appointment to the bench he focused on business and intellectual property litigation, and as a federal prosecutor he headed the San Jose branch of the U. S. Attorney’s Office. His knowledge of the law and the court system allows him to offer clients a unique and invaluable perspective on their litigation needs.

Highlights

• Retired Judge, Santa Clara County Superior Court.
• Past attorney-in-charge of U.S. Attorney’s Office, San Jose branch.
• Former trial attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Organized Crime and Racketeering Section.
• Argued appeals in the U.S. Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals.

Publications

• California Objections. (2003, rev. 2010). James Publishing
• Developments in California Trial Practice. On the web: www.caltrialpractice.com

Articles

• "Conducting Warranted Searches Without a Warrant" Daily Journal, January 14, 2011

Admissions

State Bar of California

Education

J.D., Harvard Law School, 1972
B.A., University of California at Santa Cruz, 1969