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Sanford Svetcov is a partner with the Appellate Practice Group of Coughlin Stoia. He has briefed and argued more than 300 appeals in state and federal court, including: Braxton v. Municipal Court, 10 Cal. 3d 138 (1973) (First Amendment); Procunier v. Navarette, 434 U.S. 555 (1977) (civil rights); Parker Plaza v. UNUM Insurance Co., 941 F.2d 349 (5th Cir. 1991) (real estate); Catellus v. US., 34 F.3d 748 (9th Cir. 1994) (CERCLA); U.S. v. Hove, 52 F.3d 233 (9th Cir. 1995) (criminal law); Kelly v. City of Oakland, 198 F.3d 779 (9th Cir. 1999) (employment law, same gender sexual harassment); U.S. v. Henke, 222 F.3d 633 (9th Cir. 2000) (securities fraud); Moore v. Liberty Nat'l Life Ins. Co., 267 F.3d 1209 (11th Cir. 2001) (civil rights); and In re Cavanaugh, 306 F.3d 726 (9th Cir. 2002) (securities fraud).
Mr. Svetcov's professional appellate litigation experience includes securities fraud litigation, CERCLA, CEQA, commercial litigation, Clean Water Act, Civil Rights Act litigation, toxic torts, federal criminal law, California writ practice, employment law and ERISA.
Mr. Svetcov was a partner with the firm of Landels Ripley & Diamond, LLP, in San Francisco, from 1989 to 2000. His extensive legal experience includes service as: Chief, Appellate Section, United States Attorney's Office, San Francisco, 1984-1989; Attorney-in-Charge, Organized Crime Strike Force, San Francisco, 1981-1984; Chief Assistant United States Attorney, San Francisco, 1978-1981; Deputy Attorney General, State of California, 1969-1977; Legal Officer, United Stats Navy, VT-25, Chase Field, Beeville, Texas, 1966-1969; and Deputy Legislative Counsel, Legislature of California, Sacramento, 1965-1966.
Mr. Svetcov is certified as a Specialist in Appellate practice by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. He was selected by the Attorney General for the Department of Justice's John Marshall Award for Excellence in Appellate Advocacy in 1986 and is a member and past President of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers (1998), and a member of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers.
In 1999, Chief Justice Rehnquist appointed Mr. Svetcov to a three-year term on the Federal Appellate Rules Advisory Committee. He is also an ex officio member of the Ninth Circuit Rules Advisory Committee on Rules and Internal Operating Procedures. His other memberships and service commitments to the legal profession include: the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers; the Bar Association of San Francisco (Appellate Courts section); the American Bar Association (Appellate Judges Conference) Committee on Appellate Practice; and the Northern California Federal Bar Association, Board of Directors.
Mr. Svetcov earned his Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Brooklyn College in 1961 and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1964. He is a member of the Bars of the State of California, the United States Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits, and the United States District Court, Northern District of California.
For two decades, he as been active as a teacher and lecturer at continuing legal education programs, including those of the ABA Appellate Practice Institutes (1990-2000), the Ninth Circuit Federal Bar Association Appellate Practice Seminar, and the N.I.T.A. Appellate Advocacy Seminar and Fifth Circuit Bar Association Appellate Practice Seminars (1991-1999). He has served as an adjunct professor at Hastings College of Law and an instructor in Appellate Advocacy at the United States Attorney General's Advocacy Institute (1980-1989).
Mr. Svetcov is also active in community affairs. He has been a member of the San Francisco Jewish Community Relations Council since 1982, its President from 1991-1992, and during the years 1993-1995, he also served on the Northern California Hillel Council.
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