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Timestamp: 2019-04-19 05:03:44+00:00

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Jeff graduated from U.C. Berkeley School of Law in 2001 and has been practicing law continuously in the San Francisco Bay Area ever since. Jeff began his career as a general litigator and has handled employment claims, trust and estate claims, securities arbitrations and complex contract disputes. In 2003, Jeff began working in the representation of California public retirement systems. Since then, Jeff has represented CalPERS, CalSTRS and over a dozen City and County retirement systems throughout California.
As fiduciary and general counsel, Jeff assists retirement boards and their staffs in meeting their fiduciary obligations and complying with all applicable laws such as open meeting laws, public records laws, conflict of interest laws, and the laws that govern each system’s benefits, contributions and operations. As litigation counsel, Jeff has handled dozens of cases for retirement systems across the state, including benefit disputes with members, contribution disputes with employers, member eligibility disputes, employment claims, challenges to retirement boards’ actuarial decisions, constitutional due process claims and vested rights claims challenging plan design changes.
Jeff has substantial experience in all aspects of litigation. He has served as second chair in numerous bench trials and arbitrations and has served as first chair in three administrative law hearings. Jeff has briefed over a dozen cases to the California Courts of Appeal and the California Supreme Court. He has orally argued ten cases to the California Courts of Appeal, including the cases resulting in the following published opinions: Stillman v. Fresno County Employees’ Retirement Association (2011) 198 Cal.App.4th 1355; City of Pleasanton v. Board of Administration (2012) 211 Cal.App.4th 522; Chisom et al. v. Fresno County Employees’ Retirement Association (2013) 218 Cal.App.4th 400; Staniforth et al. v. Judges’ Retirement System (2014) 226 Cal.App.4th 978; Tanner v. Public Employees’ Retirement System (2016) 248 Cal.App.4th 743; and Staniforth v. Judges’ Retirement System (2016) 245 Cal.App.4th 1442. Jeff regularly gives presentations to California public retirement system administrators, trustees and attorneys, on a variety of subjects pertaining to California public retirement law.
University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, 2001, J.D.

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