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Douglas R. Young, Partner

Affiliations

Professional

• Fellow, American Academy of Appellate Lawyers
• Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
• Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers
• Senior Counsel, The College of Master Advocates and Barristers
• Member, The American Law Institute
• Member and past-President, California Academy of Appellate Lawyers
• Lawyer Representative from the Northern District of California to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, 1991-’94
• Member, Criminal Justice Act Defense Panel, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (1986-June, 2000)
• Appointed by Chief Judge to Ninth Circuit’s Advisory Committee on Rules of Practice and Internal Operating Procedures (28 U.S.C. § 2077)  (1993-’99)
• Member (Master), San Francisco American Inn of Court (President, 1999-2000)
• Member, Association of Business Trial Lawyers, Northern
• California Chapter (President, 2000; member, Board of Governors, 1992-2000)
• Past President (2001), Bar Association of San Francisco (recipient, Award of Merit, 1989); (Secretary, 1998; Treasurer, 1999; President-Elect, 2000;  board member 1988-’89).
• Appointed by Board of Governors of State Bar of California to Board of Legal Specialization consulting group charged with developing standards for certification and recertification of specialists in appellate law (1994). Thereafter, appointed as Member, State Bar Appellate Law Advisory Commission, April 1995-October 1999, and appointed to serve as Vice Chair September 1997 to October 1998.
• Member, First District Appellate Lawyers’ Liaison Committee (1992-present)
• International Legal Exchanges: Trial and Appellate Advocacy Projects, 1989-’94.  State Department task forces (under awards of Academic Specialist Grants by United States Information Agency or sponsorship by Agency for International Development) in administration of justice legal exchange projects in Uruguay, Mexico, Panama, Egypt, and Bolivia, with protocol visits to Argentina, Chile, and Greece
• Founding Chair, Litigation Section, Bar Association of San Francisco, 1989
• Board member and Secretary, Institute for the Study and Development of Legal Systems.
• Appointed by Chief Justice Ronald George) to Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on Lawyer Regulation
• Board Member, California Supreme Court Historical Society

Judicial

• Five times appointed Special Master in federal litigation
• Judge Pro Tem: San Francisco Superior Court (1990- ); San Francisco Municipal Court (1984-’87)
• Arbitrator, American Arbitration Association

Public Interest

• Co-founder, Berkeley Law Foundation (a public interest law foundation); Board Member, 1977-’78; Chairperson of Board, 1978-’79 (recipient, Award of Appreciation, 1983)
• Member, Board of Directors, Legal Aid Society of San Francisco, 1981-present; Treasurer, 1988-’90; Vice?President, 1991-’93; President, 1993-’95
• Member, Board of Directors, Public Interest Clearinghouse, 1981-’88; Chairperson of Board, 1987-’88 (recipient, Award of Appreciation, 1989)
• Member, Board of Directors (1988-’91), and Cooperating Attorney (pro bono counsel) American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California
• Chair, Attorneys’ Task Force for Children, Legal Services for Children, 1987-’88
• Member, Legal Advocates, Native American Rights Fund, 1989-’91;  Peta Uha Council, 1998 
• Member, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco (Board of Directors, 1993 - 1999)
• Recipient (1991), California State Bar/California Appellate Project Award of Appreciation for work as appointed counsel in death penalty cases
• Recipient (1992), American Bar Association Pro Bono Publico Award
• Recipient (2002), Criminal Justice Achievement Award, Criminal Trial Lawyers Association of Northern California

Teaching

• Faculty:  National Institute for Trial Advocacy; Hastings College of Advocacy; California Continuing Education of the Bar; Practising Law Institute; Litigation Section of the State Bar of California;  Price Waterhouse/NITA Expert Witness Seminars; The Rutter Group; Federal Practice Program of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California; California Appellate Project; CACJ/CPDA Criminal Law Seminars; Federal Public Defender/CJA Seminars;  ABA White Collar Crime Institute;  ABA Institute on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; Association of Business Trial Lawyers Annual Institute
• Visiting Lecturer in Law, School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California at Berkeley -- 1986 (Evidence Advocacy), 1990 (Advanced Appellate Advocacy), and 1991 (Advanced Appellate Advocacy)
• Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law, Hastings College of the Law, 1990-’91
• Miscellaneous other educational panels, lectures, etc.

Publications

• Purver, Young & Davis, California Trial Handbook 2d (Bancroft-Whitney, 1987); California Trial Handbook 3d, (Bancroft-Whitney, 1992) (with Honorable Richard P. Byrne as additional author)
• Purver, Young, Davis & Kerper, The Trial Lawyer’s Book: Preparing and Winning Cases (Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Co., 1990)
• Lynch, Young, Taylor, Purver & Davis, Negotiation and Settlement for California Lawyers and Judges (Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, 1991) 
• Lynch, Reed, Young, Taylor, Purver & Davis, Negotiation and Settlement (Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, 1992)
• Young, “Rethinking The Specific-General Intent Doctrine in California Criminal Law,” 63 Cal.L.Rev. 1352 (1976)
• Young, “Attorney-Client Privilege in Federal Courts”, CEB Federal Practice Institute (California Continuing Education of the Bar, 1991-’99 editions)
• Young, “Entrapment in Federal Bribery and Corruption Cases”, Complex Crime Journal (ABA 1994)
• Young, “Advising the Corporate Client on the Duty to Preserve Electronic Evidence”, White Collar Crime Institute 2001 (ABA 2001)
• Member, Editorial Board, Northern District of California Digest (published by Bar Association of San Francisco), 1982-’84
• Miscellaneous other journal and educational publications

Biography:

• The Best Lawyers in America
• Guide to World’s Leading Litigation Lawyers
• Chambers U.S.A.:  America's Leading Business Lawyers
• Who’s Who In America
• Who’s Who In American Law
• Who’s Who In California
• Strathmore’s Who’s Who Registry
• ABA Journal, September 1992
• California Lawyer, August 1992
• San Francisco Daily Journal,  January 26, 2001

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