Julia L. Ross

Professor Ross was an attorney at Gipson Hoffman & Pancione, Los Angeles, where she was a shareholder and member of the firm's management committee. Her civil trial practice included copyright, trademark, defamation, breach of contract, and shareholder derivative actions, with experience in all aspects of civil litigation, including pleadings, discovery, motions practice, trial, ADR, and appeals. While at Gipson Hoffman, she wrote a successful Petition for Certiorari and brief on the merits in the U.S. Supreme Court in Fogerty v. Fantasy, a copyright dispute. Professor Ross was a summer associate for Smith & Hulsey, Jacksonville, Florida, and Hecht & Associates, Toronto, Canada, and was Assistant Director of Admissions at Flagler College in Florida. She was law clerk to Honorable H. Lee Sarokin, U.S. District Judge, Newark, New Jersey.