- Bromberg worked at the Silicon Valley firm for 14 years before joining Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office as a deputy legal affairs secretary. He arrived just before the COVID-19 pandemic reached the United States, and much of his work included crafting and defending the emergency executive orders Newsom put in place in response to the virus’s spread.
- In his application for the Sixth District, dated January 2021, Bromberg wrote that he considered one of his greatest professional accomplishments defending California’s COVID-19 executive orders.
- Bromberg’s resume is dotted with stints at Big Law firms. The Harvard Law School graduate was a partner at Jones Day for 10 years before moving west to Quinn Emanuel. After leaving the governor’s legal affairs office in 2021, he became the appellate practice leader at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman in San Francisco.
- He will fill the vacancy on the Sixth District created by the retirement of Associate Justice Franklin Elia.
Today's DJ has Daniel Bromberg confirmed as 6th District appellate justice.
And Myron Moskovitz's Be Kind To Your Reader -- "If you help make the judge’s job easy and fast, the judge is more likely to like you. The key to your task is clarity. Writing clearly requires getting out of your shell as a writer, and thinking about your reader."
Today's Recorder has Buchalter Appellate Leader Joins California Boutique:
- Complex Appellate Litigation Group has hired Mary-Christine “M.C.” Sungaila, the inaugural chair of Buchalter’s appellate practice, and launched its fourth California office in Orange County.
- Complex Appellate Litigation Group, founded in 2012, was known as the California Appellate Law Group until last July.
[The DJ's story is Veteran appellate attorney M.C. Sungaila joins Complex Appellate Litigation Group; CALG's press release is here -- "CALG will be opening an office in Newport Beach, California. It will be the firm’s fourth office, and M.C. will be the firm’s 21st appellate attorney."]
Prelogar said that during the two years she clerked on the Supreme Court, she went to every single argument. “It really opened my eyes to the diversity of argument styles that exists out there,” she said. Some took up the energy in the room, were animated and forceful, and sometimes even pushed back against the justices. “They’re called ‘heaters’ in our parlance,” Prelogar said. She said there are also “coolers” who are very even-keeled, calm and professorial. Those advocates take the temperature down in the room regardless of the stakes. “I think what made each of those styles effective for individual advocates was the sincerity that was behind it,” she said. “They were not trying to take on a particular aspect or be a particular way at oral argument, but they were being themselves and they were comfortable in their own skin and knew what worked for them.”
Law360 has Supreme Court Interrupters Receive 5 Mos. Probation -- Three women who disrupted U.S. Supreme Court arguments in November in protest of its controversial Dobbs abortion decision last term pled guilty Friday to related charges in D.C. federal court and were sentenced to roughly five months' probation, lasting until the end of the high court's current term.
Law.com's Supreme Court Brief has Longer Arguments? Sotomayor Approves
The January 2023 issue of Litigation Update (from CLA's Litigation Section, Senior Editor Justice Moore) is now online, keeping you up to date on current case law.
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