Partner, Jeffers, Mangels, Butler and Marmaro, LLP

Julia Rider has 29 years of experience as a litigator. Her practice emphasizes business and commercial litigation, including unfair competition, fraud, financial institution-related issues; professional liability; complex tort litigation, technology-related claims and insurance matters.

Professional Accomplishments

• Served as one of the lead trial counsel for defendants in In re San Juan Dupont Plaza Hotel fire litigation, one of the largest disaster cases ever tried
• Represented a major California utility in defense of an antitrust complaint brought by the State of California concerning Prudhoe Bay, Alaska natural gas
• Represented a major aerospace manufacturer with Congress and the Departments of Defense and State with respect to advanced fighter aircraft programs; the project included drafting position papers as well as oral presentations to members of Congress and the Defense and State Departments
• Represented major municipality in successful defense of one of the nation’s first anti-smoking ordinances

Professional Associations

• American Bar Association—Litigation and Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Sections
• Association of Business Trial Lawyers

Admitted To Practice

• State Bar of California
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• U.S. District Court for the Central, Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of California
• U.S. Supreme Court

Education

• J.D., University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, 1975
• A.B., University of California, Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa , 1969

Publications

• “Dissolution Under the California Corporations Code: A Remedy for Minority Shareholders,” 22 UCLA L. Rev. 595
• “Lodging & the Law: They’ve Got the Power, You’ve Got the Liability,” Hotel & Resort Industry, August 1993
• “The Insurance Audit: Preventive Maintenance for Client and Counsel,” The Interlawyer, 1993 * “Planning for a Rainy Day,” U.S. and Caribbean Resort News, November 2000 * “California Case Holds Implication for Provider-Plan Relationships,” Managed Healthcare News, January 2000

Additional Information

• Article Editor, UCLA Law Review, 1974-1975
• Mortar Board, University of California, Berkeley, 1969