Orange County Superior Court
Career Highlights: Appointed commissioner by the judges of the Orange County Superior Court, September 2005, retired April 2023; sole practitioner, Laguna Hills, 1982-2005; associate, Berwick & Richards, Newport Beach, 1978-82; deputy public defender, Orange County, 1975-78
Law School: Loyola Law School
Career Highlights: Appointed commissioner by the judges of the Orange County Superior Court, September 2005, retired April 2023; sole practitioner, Laguna Hills, 1982-2005; associate, Berwick & Richards, Newport Beach, 1978-82; deputy public defender, Orange County, 1975-78
Law School: Loyola Law School
By Pat Alston
Daily Journal Staff Writer
FULLERTON - Max De Liema was a student at the UC Santa Barbara in the mid-1960s when an inspirational professor introduced him to the story of an indigent drifter convicted a few years earlier of stealing a handful of change and a few bottles of beer from a Florida pool hall.
His name was Clarence Earl Gideon, a man with only an eighth-... (continued)
Daily Journal Staff Writer
FULLERTON - Max De Liema was a student at the UC Santa Barbara in the mid-1960s when an inspirational professor introduced him to the story of an indigent drifter convicted a few years earlier of stealing a handful of change and a few bottles of beer from a Florida pool hall.
His name was Clarence Earl Gideon, a man with only an eighth-... (continued)
