Manuel S. Klausner
Member
Email: mklausner@klausnerinc.com

Practice Areas: Complex Litigation; Class Actions; Intellectual Property Law; Securities and Constitutional Litigation.

Admitted: 1963, California and New York

Law School: New York University (LL.B., 1962; LL.M., 1963)

College: University of California at Los Angeles, A.B., with honors, 1959

Member: Los Angeles County Bar Association; State Bar of California; Association of Business Trial Lawyers.

Biography: Associate Managing Editor, N.Y.U. Law Review, 1961-1962. Root-Tilden Scholar. Recipient of 1982 Lawyer-of-the-Year Award from Constitutional Rights Foundation and Los Angeles County Bar Assn. Ford Foundation Fellow in Comparative Law, New York University, 1962-1963. Legal Research in Denmark under Combined Ford Ftn. Fulbright and Danish Govt. Grants, 1963-1964. Instructor, University of Chicago Law School, 1964-1965. Co-Founding Editor, "Reason Magazine." Author: "Affirmative Action and the California Civil Rights Initiative," 1995, Annual Survey of American Law 499; "The First Amendment and Commercial Speech," 11 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 83 (1988). Participant, "Symposium on the First Amendment and Securities Regulation," 20 Conn. L. Rev. 383 (1988). Trustee, Reason Foundation, 1978-. Director, Institute for Justice, 1991-1998. Chairman, Free Speech and Election Law Practice Group, Federalist Society, 1996-2005. Chairman, Libertarian Law Council, 1974-.General Counsel, Individual Rights Ftn., 2000-.

Reported Cases: Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000); Plasticolor Molded Products v. Ford Motor Co, 713 F. Supp. 1329 (C.D. Cal. 1989); Blumenthal v. Drudge, 992 F.Supp. 44 (D.D.C., 1998).

Born: New York, N.Y., August 14, 1939

ISLN: 905843078