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Paul Kleven has been a member of
the California bar since 1980, and a Certified Specialist in
Appellate Law since 2002. For most of his career, Mr. Kleven has
represented plaintiffs at both the trial and appellate levels in
cases involving defamation and related torts. He handled all of
the briefing in the landmark United States Supreme Court case,
Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc. (1991) 501 U.S. 496. Since
opening the Law Offices of Paul Kleven in 1994, he has continued
to handle civil litigation matters while focusing increasingly on
his appellate work.
Mr. Kleven is admitted to practice before all California courts,
as well as the United States Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals, and the Northern, Central, Southern and Eastern
Districts of California. He received his legal training at Boalt
Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, where he
served as an Associate Editor of the California Law Review and
earned an American Jurisprudence Award. His casenote was published
in the California Law Review in July 1980. Mr. Kleven also
received his undergraduate degree from U.C. Berkeley, an A.B. in
English, with Highest Honors.
Prior to opening his office, Mr. Kleven practiced for a number of
years in the San Francisco firm of Charles O. Morgan, Jr., one of
the premier plaintiffs' defamation attorneys in California. He
began his career as a legal writer in the firm of Belli & Choulos,
working on the six-volume practice guide, Modern Trials. During
law school, he clerked for the United States Attorney's Office in
Los Angeles. Mr. Kleven has taught moot court at Hastings College
of the Law, and has served as a judge on numerous moot court
panels.
In addition to the California bar,Mr. Kleven is a member of the
Alameda County Bar Association, where he was for many years the
chair of the Lawyers in the Library Committee, and the Contra
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