RBGG’s Lisa Ells has been elected to join the highly selective California Academy of Appellate Lawyers.
According to the Academy’s press release: “Ms. Ells is a partner at Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP. Ms. Ells, who is a Ninth Circuit Appellate Lawyer Representative, received her B.A. cum laude from Duke University and her J.D. from Columbia Law School, as a James B. Kent Scholar and Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. After law school, she clerked for James R. Browning of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and David O. Carter of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Founded in 1972, the Academy is the nation’s oldest lawyers’ organization dedicated to appellate practice. Our members are California lawyers with substantial appellate experience, who are elected to membership after rigorous scrutiny of their reputation, character, and appellate advocacy skills. Academy members are frequently counsel of record in the most complex and highest-impact cases before the California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal, and federal appellate courts.
More information about the Academy appears on its website at www.CalAppellate.org.”