HON. KEITH M. CLEMENS (Ret.)

Judge Clemens served as Commissioner for the Los Angeles Superior Court, 1991-1996. He presided over family law direct calendar courts in Central District, 1993-1996 and North Valley District (San Fernando), 1991-1992.

EXPERIENCE AND SPECIALTIES

Commissioner Clemens presided over family law trials, mandatory settlement conferences, OSC hearings, law and motion hearings, ex parte matters, domestic violence cases, mandatory settlement conferences and voluntary settlement conferences.

In private practice, Commissioner Clemens specialized in business law and civil litigation, 1973-1979. He served as in-house counsel for Atlantic Richfield Company, 1979-1984. He practiced family law, including enforcement of child and spousal support orders, 1985-1991. He is available to resolve family law matters, business and commercial matters, fee disputes and to serve as a special master and discovery referee.

SPECIAL COURT ASSIGNMENTS

PUBLICATIONS

"Family Law Update," (co-authored with Commissioner James D. Endman and Judge Robert A. Schnider), annual summary of new California family law cases, related cases, and new and revised California statutes applicable to family law. 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 (Beverly Hills Bar Association Family Law Update).

"Family Law Support Enforcement Gets Even Tougher in 1995: Wage Assignments, Wage Garnishments, Executions, Liens, Big Penalties, Loss of Business Licenses, Seize and Sell and Other Methods for Collecting Child and Spousal Support," (co-authored with Marshall Rieger, then Deputy District Attorney), 1995 Family Law Reference Book (LACBA Family Law Symposium) (May 1995).

"Family Law Support Enforcement Gets Even Tougher in 1992: Wage Assignments, Wage Garnishments, Executions, Liens, Big Penalties, Loss of Business Licenses, and Other Methods for Collecting Child and Spousal Support," 1992 Family Law Reference Book (LACBA Family Law Symposium) (May 1992).

"Enforcement of Support Orders Against Self-Employed Obligors," (co-authored with Dennis A. Cohen), Encyclopedia of Matrimonial Practice, Prentice Hall Law & Business, 1991, Ronald L. Brown, Editor, pp. 1073-1081.

"Family Law Meets Collection Law: Wage Assignments, Wage Garnishments, Executions, Liens and Other Methods for Collecting Child and Spousal Support," 1991 Family Law Reference Book (LACBA Family Law Symposium) (May 1991).

Enforcing Child and Spousal Support Orders and Judgments Other Than Through Contempt," 1990 Family Law Reference Book (LACBA Family Law Symposium) (May 1990).

SPECIAL HONORS AND MEMBERSHIPS

Instructor, Panelist or Speaker for more than 80 continuing legal education programs for attorneys and judges since 1991 on family law topics.

Member, Executive Committee, Los Angeles County Bar Association Family Law Section, 1992-1997.

Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association Special Task Force on Unrepresented Litigants in Family Law Courts, 1994.

Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association Bankruptcy/Family Law Working Group, 1993-1995.

Director, Family Law Center of San Fernando Valley, Inc., 1993-1996.

Judge, Constitutional Rights Foundation, California Mock Trial Competition, 1993-2003, Los Angeles Superior Court.

Member, Executive Committee, San Fernando Valley Bar Association Family Law Section, 1991-1992.

Public Member, Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Citizen’s Advisory Committee on Child Support Enforcement, 1989-1991.

EDUCATION

J.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1973

Graduate School, Economics, University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University

B.A., Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1964

SPECIALTIES

Family Law

Business and Commercial

Special Master/Discovery Referee

Fee Disputes