Hon Hon. Brian Hoffstadt is our Latest Featured Speaker!
Our Latest Featured Speaker is Hon. Brian Hoffstadt of the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Two!
Justice Brian Hoffstadt is speaking at our upcoming 10th Annual Advanced Appellate Practice Program (CA), set for February 25th and 27th, 2025.
This program is led by experienced judges and appellate attorneys, many of whom are CA Certified Legal Specialists in Appellate Law and have served as staff attorneys for appellate justices. Designed for professionals with a solid foundation in appellate practice, the program explores intermediate to advanced topics, and assumes participants have a fundamental understanding of the subject.
Justice Hoffstadt is co-teaching “Lessons for Civil Litigators from Court of Appeal Criminal Practice,“ alongside Justice Michael J. Raphael, on February 25. You can see the detailed agenda and the rest of the program, and sign up to watch it live or purchase OnDemand Streaming or a recorded package download here.
Justice Hoffstadt has previously taught at our Advanced Appellate Conference, where attendees appreciated Justice Hoffstadt’s candor and advice. This program and others are available for purchase as a recorded package or OnDemand Streaming here.
Justice Brian Hoffstadt has served as an Associate Justice on the California Court of Appeal since 2014. Immediately prior to that, he served as a judge on the Los Angeles Superior Court for four years. As a lawyer, he practiced in both federal and California courts. Immediately after law school, he clerked for Ninth Circuit Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall and U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. He then spent three years doing legal policy work for two different federal agencies in Washington, D.C., and the following six-plus years as an Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles, where he prosecuted criminal cases in federal district court and argued 26 appeals before the Ninth Circuit. In 2007, he joined the Issues and Appeals practice group at Jones Day, where he argued appeals and helped formulate trial strategy in state and federal court. He has been teaching law students, lawyers and judges for many years, is the author of California Criminal Discovery (5th ed.), has published nearly a dozen law review articles, and is a regular contributor to the Daily Journal. He was recently elected to the American Law Institute, and has served on the Executive Committee of the Appellate Judges Conference of the American Bar Association since 2015.
