William graduated from Univeristy of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in 1986. He took the July, 1986 California Bar Examination and was admitted to practice in December of that year. In 1992, after successfully passing the Washington State Bar Examination, William was admitted to practice in that state. He was also admitted as a member of the very elite bar of the United States Supreme Court in 1993.
Since being admitted, William has enjoyed an active career: mostly as a litigator. He has represented prominent public figures from police and public officers, to include County Executives and Judges. He has also garnered a reputation for his litigation skills outstanding enough to attract and be selected as counsel by prominent clients including several legatees of the Last Will and Testament of Jerry Garica. During his lifetime, Garcia gained world wide fame as the founding member and leader of the internatinally acclaimed musical group: The Grateful Dead. Aspects of William's legal services have been featured in numerous television and print media including a BBC Documentary (You Can't Take It With You) highlighting his successful battle with survivors of The Grateful Dead to secure the legacy of Jerry Garcia's favorite guitar maker. William's reputation for developing winning litigation strategies has recently resulted in our firm being retained by Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting: two world-renowned Hollywood actors, to represent them in prosecuting their right to control the distribution of images of themselves in the nude: taken while they were minors and now possessed by powerful motion picture industry giants. The claims William is advocating as their legal representative call into question the studio's arguably low regard for the actors' private rights when those rights conflict with the media conglomerate's need to profit. William was chosen by the actors to replace other, less successful legal counsel. He views his services for them--as he does his services for all his clients--as necessary to vindicate the morals, reputation, and legacy that they are legally entitled to enjoy. With this matter and the numerous other cases he manages in collaboration with his law partner Zishan Lokhandwala, William continues to thrive professionally on his unique and widely recognized acumen for developing legal strategies that affordably equalize our clients' power to assert their rights against the markedly unfair advantage belonging to the often unlimited litigation wealth of those who would deprive them of those rights.
