Hon. Keith Clemens, Comm. (Ret.) T: 310.203.8200 F: 310.203.8211

EDUCATION:

• (1964) B.A., Economics, University of California, Berkeley

• Graduate School, Economics, University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University

• (1973) J.D., University of California, Los Angeles
  - Order of the Coif
  - Associate Editor, UCLA Law Review
  - Criminal Courts Bar Association Award
  - Vice President, Student Bar Association
  - Co-founder, UCLA Corrections Law Program
  

JUDICIAL EXPERIENCE:

(July 1991 - November 1996) Commissioner, Los Angeles Superior Court

• (1993 - 1996) Presided over family law direct calendar courts, Department 9, Central District (County Courthouse)

• (1991 - 1992) Department J, North Valley District (San Fernando)

• Family law trials, mandatory settlement conferences, OSC hearings, law and motion hearings, ex parte matters, domestic violence cases, mandatory settlement conferences, voluntary settlement conferences.

• Four-month temporary assignment to criminal calendar department, North Valley District, 1992. Felony jury trials, criminal law calendar.
  

LEGAL CAREER:

• (1985 - 1991) Partner, Center for Enforcement of Family Support, Los Angeles, Family law, emphasizing enforcement of child and spousal support orders.

• (1979 - 1984) In-House Counsel, Atlantic Richfield Company

• (1973 - 1979) Private Practice, Los Angeles, Primarily business law and civil litigation
  

SPECIAL COURT ASSIGNMENTS:

• (1992 - 1996) Member, Los Angeles Superior Court Family Law Committee

• (1994 - 1996) Member, Los Angeles Superior Court Domestic Violence Task Force

• (1995 - 1996) Member, Los Angeles Superior Court Technology Committee

• (1995) Member, Judicial Council Family Court Services Grants Advisory Committee

• (1994) Chair, Committee on Revision of Family Law Court Stipulation Forms
  

ADR EXPERIENCE:

(November 1996 - Present) Private Dispute Resolution
Mediations, Arbitrations, Settlement Conferences, Discovery References and other Reference Proceedings, Case Management, Private Trials, Special Master/Family Facilitator, and Judge Pro Tempore.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

• (Spring 2006 - Present) Adjunct Associate Professor of Law, Southwestern
  University School of Law

• (Fall 2005) Adjunct Professor of Law, University of West Los Angeles School of Law
  

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Family Law, Fee Disputes, Discovery Referee/Special Master, and Business/Commercial
  

PUBLICATIONS:

• "Family Law Update," annual summary of new California family law cases, related cases, and new and revised California statutes applicable to family law. 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 (Prepared annually for the “Three Amigos” Beverly Hills Bar Association Family Law Update program with Judge Robert A. Schnider and Commissioner James D. Endman.)

• "Family Law Support Enforcement Gets Even Tougher in 1995: Wage Assignments, Wage Garnishments, Executions, Liens, Big Penalties, Loss of Business Licenses, Seize and Sell and Other Methods for Collecting Child and Spousal Support," (co-authored with Marshall Rieger, then Deputy District Attorney, now Commissioner), 1995 Family Law Reference Book (LACBA Family Law Symposium) (May 1995).

• "Family Law Support Enforcement Gets Even Tougher in 1992: Wage Assignments, Wage Garnishments, Executions, Liens, Big Penalties, Loss of Business Licenses, and Other Methods for Collecting Child and Spousal Support," 1992 Family Law Reference Book (LACBA Family Law Symposium) (May 1992).

• "Enforcement of Support Orders Against Self-Employed Obligors," (co-authored with Dennis A. Cohen), Encyclopedia of Matrimonial Practice, Prentice Hall Law & Business, 1991, Ronald L. Brown, Editor, pp. 1073-1081.

• "Family Law Meets Collection Law: Wage Assignments, Wage Garnishments, Executions, Liens and Other Methods for Collecting Child and Spousal Support," 1991 Family Law Reference Book (LACBA Family Law Symposium) (May 1991).

• "Enforcing Child and Spousal Support Orders and Judgments Other Than Through Contempt," 1990 Family Law Reference Book (LACBA Family Law Symposium) (May 1990).
  

INSTRUCTOR / PANELIST / SPEAKER:

• For Continuing Education Programs: Instructor, panelist or speaker for more than 100 continuing legal education programs for attorneys and judges since 1991
  

BENCH / BAR AND OTHER LAW-RELATED ACTIVITIES:

• (January 1998 - Present) Member, Board of Directors, Levitt & Quinn Family Law Center, Inc., a Non-profit Law Firm

• (1997 - 2005) Member, Los Angeles Free Clinic, Legal Advisory Board

• (July 1992 - June 1997) Member, Executive Committee, Los Angeles County Bar Association Family Law Section

• (1994) Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association Special Task Force on
  Unrepresented Litigants in Family Law Courts

• (1993 - 1995) Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association Bankruptcy/Family Law Working Group

• (1993 - 1996) Director, Family Law Center of San Fernando Valley, Inc.

• (1993 - 2006) Judge, Constitutional Rights Foundation, California Mock Trial Competition, Los Angeles Superior Court

• (July 1991 - December 1992) Member, Executive Committee, San Fernando Valley Bar Association Family Law Section

• (1989 - 1991) Public member, Los Angeles County District Attorney's Citizens Advisory Committee on Child Support Enforcement
  

AVAILABLE:

Throughout Southern California

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