Federal Ninth Circuit Civil Appellate Practice -- Author Information

Christopher A. Goelz is a Circuit Court Mediator for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. His duties include selecting cases for the Court's settlement program, conducting settlement conferences and entering procedural orders in selected cases. He has also worked for the Court in its civil motions unit, was the Reporter for the Court's Long Range Plan, and has participated in the formulation of many aspects of court procedure. Before joining the Court staff, he was engaged in private practice in San Francisco as a civil litigator. Mr. Goelz is admitted to practice before the Ninth Circuit, and is a member of the California State Bar and the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution. He is a graduate of Yale Law School.



Meredith J. Watts is engaged in private practice in San Francisco and specializes in federal appeals and writs. She has served on the staff of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals as a Prebriefing Conference Attorney, and also in the Court's civil motions unit. Ms. Watts is admitted to practice before the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, and is also a member of the California State Bar. She has served on the Federal Courts Committee of the California State Bar Association. Ms. Watts is a graduate of Hastings College of Law, where she was Articles Editor of the Constitutional Law Quarterly.



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