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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=3 height=80 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="07700500dvldtc.gif"> <div> background & education</div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="078d2c00dvldtc.gif"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Law Offices of Jeffrey S. 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Benice is a 1978 graduate of <A HREF="http://www.law.ucla.edu/index1.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.law.ucla.edu/index1.html"><U>UCLA Law School</U></A> and was a member of the UCLA Law Review. While at UCLA, Mr. Benice externed for United States District Court Judge Irving Hill in 1976, and clerked for Justice F. Douglas McDaniel in the <I>California Fourth District Court of Appeal</I> in 1978. He was an associate and partner at Lawler, Felix & Hall from 1979 to 1986 and a partner with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison from 1986 to 1994. In 1994, Mr. Benice left Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison to establish his own trial practice.</div> <bR> <div> Mr. Benice is admitted to practice law before the <A HREF="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/"><U>United States Supreme Court</U></A>; the <A HREF="http://www.fedcir.gov/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.fedcir.gov/"><U>Federal Circuit Court of Appeals</U></A>; the <A HREF="http://www.ce9.uscourts.gov/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ce9.uscourts.gov/"><U>Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals</U></A>; the <A HREF="http://www.ustaxcourt.gov/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ustaxcourt.gov/"><U>United States Tax Court</U></A>; the <A HREF="http://www.co.uscourts.gov/dindex.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.co.uscourts.gov/dindex.htm"><U>United States District Court, District of Colorado</U></A>, the <A HREF="http://www.mied.uscourts.gov/_opinions/opinion.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.mied.uscourts.gov/_opinions/o"><U>United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan</U></A>, the <A HREF="http://www.ohnd.uscourts.gov/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ohnd.uscourts.gov/"><U>United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio</U></A>, the <A HREF="http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/"><U>United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania</U></A>, and all <A HREF="http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/"><U>California State</U></A> and <A HREF="http://www.uscourts.gov/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.uscourts.gov/"><U>Federal Courts</U></A>.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Professional References"><U><IMG SRC="092bd3e0.jpg" border=0 width="189" height="62" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Professional References"><U>Click on Gavel </U></A><A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Professional References"><U>t</U></A><A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Professional References"><U>o Continue</U></A></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=24 BGCOLOR="#111111" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> To Preview Your Selection - Click on any Blue Link (Above)</div> </td> </tr></table></body>