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HON. STEPHEN E. HABERFELD (Ret.)

Judge Haberfeld served as a United States Magistrate Judge, Central District of California, 1988-1992. Judge Pro Tem, Los Angeles Superior and Municipal Court, 1988-present. Referee/Receiver, Los Angeles Superior Court, 1984-present. Judge Pro Tem, Malibu Municipal Court, 1988-1991. Assistant Special Prosecutor, Watergate Special Prosecution Force, Washington, D.C., 1973-1978. Law clerk to Judge Leonard P. Moore, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1970-1971.

Judge Haberfeld is available to arbitrate and or mediate disputes concerning contracts corporate, commercial law, consumer warranty issues, employment/wrongful termination, entertainment law, environmental law, family law, health care, insurance coverage and indemnity, intellectual property, international trade, lender liability, medical and professional malpractice, pension, personal injury, probate, products liability, real estate, securities/financial, shipping & maritime, toxic torts, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, trusts & estates and federal law/bankruptcy, business torts and discrimination. As a private judge, Judge Haberfeld specializes in business, entertainment, real estate and insurance dispute resolution.

NON-JUDICIAL PUBLIC SERVICE AND SPECIAL HONORS

President, Los Angeles City Special Committee on Investigative Oversight, 1998, 2002-2003. Article Editor, Harvard Journal on Legislation, 1968-1970. University of California, Los Angeles Valedictorian, 1965. Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Regents Scholar, trademark law.

LAW SCHOOL TEACHING AND PUBLICATIONS

Adjunct professor of law, Intellectual Property Right, Pepperdine University School of Law, 1979-1986 and 1990.

Co-Author, Closing Argument (Segments Section), 7 California Trial Guide (Matthew Bender, 1992). Comment, "The Problem of the Faithless Elector, "6 Harvard Journal on Ligislation 254 (1969). Reasearch Assistant to Professor Richard H. Field, Study of the Division of Jurisdiction Between State and Federal Courts American Law Institute, 1969.

EDUCATION

J.D., Harvard Law School, 1970; Princeton University, Master in Public Affairs, 1967; B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1965.