ABOUT JORDAN STANZLER

Jordan Stanzler has been practicing law since 1972, both as a trial and appellate lawyer. He has extensive jury trial experience and has argued over fifty appeals in courts around the country.

He graduated from Harvard University with a cum laude in English, from the University of Chicago Law School, where he as an editor of the law review, and from the New York University Law School , where he received an L.L.M. in Taxation.

He began his legal career as a civil rights lawyer with the Employment Law Center is San Francisco ; then spent five years working on a landmark class action on behalf of women faculty members challenging university-wide procedures in hiring, promotion, and tenure at Brown University . See Lamphere v. Brown University , 553 F. 2d 714 (1 st Cir. 1977)

From 1982-1988 he was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York and Chief of the Tax Unit in 1987-88, working with U.S. Attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani. During that time he prosecuted high profile criminal tax matters such as U.S. v. Atkins, 869 F. 2d 135 ( 2d Cir. 1989).

From 1988-1999 he was partner in Anderson Kill & Olick, a New York-based firm that specialized in representing corporations in insurance coverage disputes nationwide.

That experience led him back to California where he founded the firm of Stanzler, Funderburk & Castellon LLP, with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco , California . He continues to practice complex civil litigation at the trial and appellate level.

He started writing law review articles in his second year of law school and has continued writing ever since, publishing several articles each year. He is co-author the treatise, Insurance Coverage Litigation (Aspen Publishers 2006).

His work as an appellate attorney grows out of his experience as a trial lawyer. His goal is to make an appellate brief, and oral argument, as simple, compelling, and interesting as possible, especially in the most complex and technical cases.