U.S. District Court (San Francisco)
Career Highlights: Assumed senior status, 2011; appointed by President Bill Clinton as a Northern District of California judge, 1997; partner, Coblentz, Cahen, McCabe & Breyer, 1980-1997; chief assistant district attorney, San Francisco County, 1979-1980; associate, Jacobs, Sills & Coblentz, 1974-1979; assistant special prosecutor, Watergate Special Prosecution Force, 1973-1974; assistant district attorney, San Francisco, 1968-1973; staff attorney, Legal Aid Society of San Francisco, 1967-1968; law clerk, Hon. Oliver J. Carter, 1966-1967
Law School: UC Berkeley School of Law, 1966
United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Career Highlights: Assumed senior status, 2011; appointed by President Bill Clinton as a Northern District of California judge, 1997; partner, Coblentz, Cahen, McCabe & Breyer, 1980-1997; chief assistant district attorney, San Francisco County, 1979-1980; associate, Jacobs, Sills & Coblentz, 1974-1979; assistant special prosecutor, Watergate Special Prosecution Force, 1973-1974; assistant district attorney, San Francisco, 1968-1973; staff attorney, Legal Aid Society of San Francisco, 1967-1968; law clerk, Hon. Oliver J. Carter, 1966-1967
Law School: UC Berkeley School of Law, 1966
United States District Court for the Northern District of California
By Rebecca Beyer
Daily Journal Staff Writer There were lawyers in front of U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer on a recent Friday, but he didn't really need them. The San Francisco federal judge was doing both their jobs, arguing first one side and then the other, stabbing with his index finger to hammer his points - or theirs - home. Once he'd finished, he drew a breath. "When I read all this, I was trying to figure out w... (continued)
Daily Journal Staff Writer There were lawyers in front of U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer on a recent Friday, but he didn't really need them. The San Francisco federal judge was doing both their jobs, arguing first one side and then the other, stabbing with his index finger to hammer his points - or theirs - home. Once he'd finished, he drew a breath. "When I read all this, I was trying to figure out w... (continued)
