DJ's obit for Ellis Horvitz
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Ellis J. Horvitz, 1928-2022: Litigator, raconteur is credited with creating the appellate law firm.
- Horvitz died March 22, weeks shy of his 94th birthday.
- Born in Cleveland on April 27, 1928, he attended Stanford Law School at the same time as two future U.S. Supreme Court Justices: Sandra Day O’Connor and Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. He kept a picture including the three of them in his Los Angeles office
- Just a few years after passing the bar in 1951, Horvitz decided he wanted to spend his career in appellate law. He co-founded Horvitz & Levy in 1957 as a firm specializing in the practice. This was then an unusual concept
- Horvitz “briefed more than 80 cases in the California Supreme Court and presented oral argument in more than 50”
- “Ellis was the pioneer. He was the George Washington of appellate practice.”
