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
 

Preston A. Marx, III

Experience:

  • Practice Areas: Please see "Practice Areas".

  • Professor of Law – Contracts, Legal Research:
    Southern California Institute of Law,
    Santa Barbara & Ventura Campuses, 1994 – 2007.

Education:

  • Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana – J.D. 1993.
     

  • Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

    • B.A. with Departmental Honors in Political Science, 1990

Honors and Activities

  • Tulane University Summa Cum Laude

  • Phi Beta Kappa

  • Junior Year Abroad – Bristol, England

  • Professor of the Year – Southern California Institute of Law

Written Work:

  • Research Assistant: Bybee, Jay S. “Advising the President: Separation of Powers and the Federal Advisory Committee Act.” Yale Law Journal 104 (1994):51-73.

  • How to Use the Internet for Legal Research, 1999 CLE manual for the National Center for Continuing Education - seminar presented in 42 cities throughout the United States

Bar Membership: 

  • California State Bar, Admitted 2002

  • Louisiana State Bar, Admitted 1994

  • United States District Court, Central District of California

  • United States District Court, Southern District of California

Board Memberships:

  • Rotary Club of Carpinteria

  • Sarah House, Santa Barbara, California

  • Carpinteria Valley Chamber of Commerce

  • California Avocado Festival

  • Santa Barbara Women Lawyers

  • Santa Barbara Women Lawyers Foundation

Community Service and Organizations:

  • Rotary Club of Carpinteria

  • Carpinteria Chamber of Commerce

  • American Inns of Court, William L. Gordon chapter

Hobbies/Interests:

  • Music – Member, The Brewery Boys – lead guitar

  • Rock and Roll History/Musician biographies

  • Vintage Guitars

  • Classic Automobiles

  • Scale Models – automobile, aviation.

  • Aviation – vintage and commercial

 

 

957 Maple Avenue, Carpinteria CA 93013
Voice: 805-566-9500
Fax: 805-684-4064
Email: info@bergermarx.com