Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
 

Matthew I. Berger

Experience:

  • Practice Areas: Please see "Practice Areas".

  • Professor of Law – Real Property: Southern California
    Institute of Law, Ventura, California, 2002-2003

Education:

  • University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, Oregon –
    J.D. May 1979

    • Certificate of Specialty in Ocean and Coastal Law
       

  • University of California, Santa Barbara, California

    • B.A. with Honors in Political Science, Sociology Minor, 1972

Honors and Activities

  • Oregon Law Review, Associate Editor

  • American Jurisprudence Award for Excellence in Trusts and Estates

  • Association of Trial Lawyers of America Environmental Law Essay Competition Winner

Written Work:

  • Liquefied Natural Gas Facilities: The Development of Petroleum Resources From the Outer Continental Shelf: Legal Management Problems and Capabilities in Oregon - for the Oregon Governor’s Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Development Task Force

  • Occupational Disease and Statutes of Limitations: Schiele v. Hobart Corporation - Case note submitted for Law Review publication and Environmental Law Essay Competition

  • Editorial board member (Staff Attorney) for the revision of Felix S. Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law (1982 Edition; Michie, Bobbs-Merrill)

Bar Membership: 

  • California State Bar, Admitted 1979

  • United States District Courts for California (All Districts)

  • United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal, Admitted 1980

Community Service and Organizations:

  • Rotary Club of Carpinteria

  • Carpinteria Chamber of Commerce

  • Women's Economic Ventures (WEV), Member of the Board

 

 

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