Speaking Engagements

“Pre-Trial Matters,” Pincus, 20th Annual Superior Court Boot Camp: The Nuts and Bolts (October 23, 2025)

Notable Oral Arguments

Argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC v. Intervening Advisors, et al., Case No. 25-4575 (Pasadena, CA, November 17, 2025)

Publications

• “Why It’s Time for Older Judges to Retire and Make Way for Younger Generations,” Los Angeles Daily Journal (July 18, 2024)
• “Working: Conversations with Essential Workers,” California Litigation, Volume 37, No. 1 (May, 2024)
• “A Trial Lawyer in Full: The Life and Career of James J. Brosnahan,” California Litigation, Volume 36, No. 2 (September, 2023)
• “U.S. v. Nixon, 50 Years Later,” California Litigation, Volume 35, No. 2 (October, 2022)
• “What I’ve Learned,” California Litigation, Volume 35, No. 1 (May, 2022)
• “A Lion in Winter: Senior Circuit Judge J. Clifford Wallace at 92,” California Litigation, Volume 34, No. 3 (January, 2022)
• “The Essential Scalia: On the Constitution, the Courts, and the Rule of Law,” Edited by Jeffrey S. Sutton and Edward Whelan (reviewed by Dan Lawton) California Litigation, Volume 34, No. 1 (2021)
• “We’re the Biggest Part of the Problem,” Los Angeles Daily Journal (June 15, 2020)
• “The Stringfellow Acid Pits: The Legal and Toxic Legacy,” by Brian Craig (reviewed by Dan Lawton) California Litigation, vol. 33, no. 2, (June 2020)
• “Meeting the Moment” Los Angeles Daily Journal (March 25, 2020)
• Above The Ground: The Kevin Barry Artt Story, a work of narrative nonfiction (2023), published in Europe as Hunted: The Kevin Barry Artt Story (2024)
• “Annexation, Legally Speaking” Los Angeles Daily Journal (August 20, 2019)
• “The Most Newsworthy Part of a Person’s Entire Life” Los Angeles Daily Journal (May 29, 2019)
• “Freshly Cut Grass and Protective Netting” Los Angeles Daily Journal (April 3, 2018)
• “Open NCAA Basketball Tournament to all Teams” Los Angeles Daily Journal (March 16, 2018)
• “Which Office Do I Go to to Get My Reputation Back?” Los Angeles Daily Journal (December 15, 2017)
• “Players’ Protests a Pointless, Costless Joke” The Daily Transcript (October 3, 2017)
• “San Diego’s Marvelous, Artless New Courthouse” Los Angeles Daily Journal (June 9, 2017)
• “The Elephant in the Originalism Room” Los Angeles Daily Journal (April 17, 2017)
• “Lawyer, Lawyer, Pants On Fire” Los Angeles Daily Journal, March 13, 2017)
• “Telling Truth About Racial Profiling” San Diego Union-Tribune (August 5, 2016)
• “Springsteen’s – and Trump’s – America” Los Angeles Daily Journal, (June 21, 2016)
• “Somehow We All Made it Through Last Monday: Tax Day” Los Angeles Daily Journal (April 26, 2016)
• “American Exceptionalism and Michael Townley” Los Angeles Daily Journal (March 8, 2016)
• “End the Incivility Plague in Our Profession” Los Angeles Daily Journal (September 4, 2015)
• “Sometimes, Lawyers Work Against Human Rights” Los Angeles Daily Journal (August 19, 2015)
• “Brady Tosses Lawyers Some Lessons” Los Angeles Daily Journal (August 5, 2015)
• “Lawyers Turned Venture Capitalists: A Cautionary Tale” Los Angeles Daily Journal (July 17, 2015)
• “The Hated, Caustic, and Honest Scalia” Los Angeles Daily Journal (July 10, 2015)
• “The Frontiers of Golf, Law and Capital Markets” San Diego Daily Transcript (June 24, 2015)
• “Cochran Legacy a Model for Young Lawyers” Los Angeles Daily Journal (June 10, 2015)
• “Take a closer look at physician-assisted suicide bill” Los Angeles Daily Journal (May 27, 2015)
• “A Major Moment for the Major Leagues” Los Angeles Daily Journal (April 22, 2015)
• “Untouchable – The Problem of Prosecutorial Misconduct” San Diego Daily Transcript (April 8, 2015)
• “Ending Prosecutorial Unaccountability” Los Angeles Daily Journal (April 2, 2015)
• “SDSU No. 1 in your heart, No. 64 in the classroom” San Diego Daily Transcript (March 25, 2015)
• “Lessons in business, courage and service” San Diego Daily Transcript (March 11, 2015)
• “I Dare You, Mr. Mayor” San Diego Daily Transcript (January 22, 2015);
• “Torture, and never having to say sorry” Daily Journal (December 26, 2014)
• “John Lennon and his American lawyer” Daily Journal (December 2, 2013)
• “Moving your law offices: too much stuff” Daily Journal (October 22, 2013)
• “Lessons Learned From The Paris Peace Accords” The Recorder (June 7, 2013)
• “Lessons Abound From Peace Accord Negotiations” Los Angeles Daily Journal (May 24, 2013)
• “The Devilish Things Court Do” The Recorder (May 13, 2013)
• “Torturous Logic, Ten Years Later” The Recorder (May 6, 2013)
• “Norb Ehrenfreund and the International Criminal Court” Los Angeles Daily Journal (February 7, 2013)
• “Fraud Statute Invites Bogus Corruption Charges: Part 1” Los Angeles Daily Journal (October 30, 2012)
• “Fraud Statute Invites Bogus Corruption Charges: Part 2” Los Angeles Daily Journal (November 5, 2012)
• “Sister Kathleen Marie and the Code of Canon Law” The Daily Transcript (July 30, 2012)
• “Andy Griffith, William Rehnquist and a ‘Man in a Hurry'” Los Angeles Daily Journal (July 09, 2012)
• “William Mulholland And His Lawyer, 100 years later” Los Angeles Daily Journal (June 13, 2012)
• “Flood v. Kuhn and justice versus law: Part 2” Los Angeles Daily Journal (May 31, 2012)
• “Flood v. Kuhn and justice versus law: Part 1” Los Angeles Daily Journal (May 30, 2012)
• “Idiosyncratic Jurist Is His Own Man” Los Angeles Daily Journal, (November 10, 2011)
• “D Lawton, Thomas Tang, Robert Boochever, and the War between Law and Justice” Los Angeles Daily Journal (October 28-31, 2011)
• “An Open Letter from Frank McCourt to Bud Selig” Los Angeles Daily Journal (June 20, 2011)
• “The Day Lawyers Took Over Baseball” Los Angeles Daily Journal, May (17-18, 2010)
• “Untouchable” Los Angeles Daily Journal (March 29, 2010);
• “Everything Must Go” Los Angeles Daily Journal (February 17-18, 2010)
• “For Lawyers and Politicians Alike, Regret Can Be a Valuable Thing” Los Angeles Daily Journal (January 9, 2009)
• “Beyond Civility Codes” Los Angeles Daily Journal (August 14, 2007);
• “Living in an Age of Phony Apologies” Los Angeles Daily Journal, (February 24, 2004)
• “Fair Shake? Arbitration Industry Has No Incentive to Reform a System That Serves It Well” Los Angeles Daily Journal (July 24, 2002)
• “Torts Need No Reform; Laws Already Protect Real Victims” Los Angeles Daily Journal (September 4, 2001)

Media

• Interviewed in “Courts Freeze on Same-Sex Marriage” KUSI-TV (August 16, 2010)
• Interviewed in “San Diego Defense Attorney Appointed to Represent Accused Shooter” KUSI-TV (January 10, 2011)

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