Fred H. Altshuler (Ret.)

faltshuler@altshulerberzon.com

Fred H. Altshuler, who retired in 2010, was a founding partner of Altshuler Berzon LLP. He is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Chicago Law School, where he was Articles Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. He served as a law clerk to Judge John C. Godbold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. From 1969 to 1973, he was a Directing Attorney for California Rural Legal Assistance, and from 1975 to 1978, he practiced with the San Francisco law firm of Howard, Prim, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady & Pollak. During the Watergate controversy in 1974, he was Counsel to the Impeachment Inquiry staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. He is a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, has been on the Boards of Directors of the Bar Association of San Francisco, the Lawyers Club of San Francisco, the CORO Foundation, and California Rural Legal Assistance, and is Co-Chair of the Bar Association of San Francisco's Amicus Curiae Committee. He also serves on the boards of the New Israel Fund (San Francisco Region), Public Advocates and the Planning Association for the Richmond. He was a delegate at the 1996 Democratic National Convention, and in 2004 he was California State Counsel for the Kerry/Edwards Campaign. Mr. Altshuler is listed in "The Best Lawyers in America" for administrative law.