Steven L. Simas

 

Of Counsel

 

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Practice Areas:

Health Care Regulation; Employment Law; Administrative Hearings and Appeals; Professional Licensing and Regulation; Public Contract Law; Public Law

Admitted:

1990, California and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California; 1992, U.S. District Court, Central District of California; 1994, U.S. Supreme court; 2000, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Law School:

University of California School of Law at Davis, JD, 1990

Member:

Sacramento County Bar Association; San Luis Obispo County Bar Association; State Bar of California; California Academy of Attorneys for Health Care Professionals

Biography:

Deputy Attorney General, State of California, 1993-1996, 1999-2000. Legal Advisory, Public Employment Relations Board, 1997-1999. Chief Consultant, Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment, 1996-1997. Judge Pro Tem, Sacramento County Superior Court, 1998-.

Steve graduated from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and U.C. Davis School of Law with his Juris Doctor. He served as a deputy attorney general in the employment law section of the Office of the Attorney General in Sacramento and as the chief consultant to the Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment in the California Legislature.

In 1997, he received a gubernatorial appointment as counsel to the Public Employment Relations Board where he served for two years. Steve has also served as a temporary judge for the Sacramento Superior Court, Small Claims and Traffic Divisions since 1998, and was the chair of the Sacramento County Bar, Administrative Law Section in 2005 and 2006. He is also a member of the Sacramento and San Luis Obispo County Bar Associations.