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EDUCATION:
B.A., San Francisco
State University – 1969
J.D., McGeorge
School of Law, University of the Pacific – 1974
Admitted to practice before:
All California Appellate and Superior courts
United States District Court for Eastern District of California
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS:
California State Bar Association
Sacramento County Bar Association
Family Law Section, Sacramento County Bar Association
Family Law Section, California State Bar Association
Sacramento Law Practice Management & Technology
Users Group
Sacramento Collaborative Practice Group
International Academy of Collaborative Professionals.
President and Managing Shareholder, Hiroshima, Jacobs, Roth and Lewis,
A Law Corporation
Charter Member, Dean's Counsel and Amicus Lex, McGeorge School of
Law, University of the Pacific
Donor, Hiroshima, Jacobs, Roth and Lewis, Inc. Scholarship, McGeorge
School of Law, University of the Pacific
Deputy District Attorney, Sacramento County – 1974, 1975
Chairman, Sacramento County Judiciary Committee – 1985
President, Sacramento Young Lawyers Association – 1983
Board of Directors, Sacramento Young Lawyers Association – 1977 to
1984
Board of Directors, Sacramento County Bar Association – 1982, 1983
Charter Member/Board of Directors, St. Thomas More Legal Society –
1988 to 2006.
“AV” Rating, Martindale – Hubbell
Law Directory
1999 Bar Registrar of Preeminent Lawyers
COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Board of Directors, Children's Receiving Home
of Sacramento – 1977 to 1983, 1993 to 2005
President, Children's Receiving Home of Sacramento –
1981, 2003
Board of Directors, Sacramento Diocesan School
Board – 1988 to 1994
President, Sacramento Diocesan School Board
– 1993 to 1994
LECTURER:
Lecturer and Moderator, "Dividing Marital
Property Upon Dissolution," California Continuing Education
of the Bar – 1984, 1989
MEDIATION AND COLLABORATIVE NEGOTIATION:
Robert has extensive training and experience
involving family law mediation, including training through the
Legal Alternative Mediation Service. He volunteers at the Sacramento
County Superior Court with the Pro Per Mediation Program and is
on the Sacramento Superior Court Approved Mediator List. While
maintaining an active litigation practice, he recognizes the substantial
emotional and financial benefits of mediation and is committed
to settling dispute quickly, fairly and economically.
Robert also has extensive education and experience
in the Collaborative Practice process. He is one of twenty
five members of the Sacramento Collaborative Practice Group, which
started in Sacramento in 2002 and was instrumental in forming the
non-profit corporation. He is also a member of the International
Association of Collaborative Professionals.
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