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Mar. 9, 2018

Deep Respect

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer has an abiding love of legal craft, and lawyers have a devotion to him.

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Deep Respect

Charles R. Breyer

Northern District of California (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
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SAN FRANCISCO — No man can entirely defy aging but Charles R. Breyer’s brain remains an unending fountain of intellectual curiosity. The federal judge has a unique mix of strategic acumen, stage presence and rhetorical wit that lawyers say make him simultaneously intimidating and endearing.

Attorneys say Breyer demonstrates a great love and respect for litigators, because of his deep experience in the craft, but also hol... (continued)

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