Jan C. Gabrielson

Professional Background

• Assistant Professor (Graduate Writing Skills) in the Masters Program in Negotiation, Conflict-Resolution, and Peace Building, California State University, Dominguez Hills.
• Practiced law in Los Angeles County from 1970 to 2003
• Taught seminars and coached lawyers and accountants in writing, time management, and marketing their practices, in addition to seminars on technical legal issues
• President of the Century City bar Association
• American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Board of Governors, Newsletter Editor, President of the Southern California Chapter
• Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Volunteer in the Minority Law Student Mentor Program
• Executive Committees of the State Bar of California Family Law Section and Law Practice Management Sections
• Judge Pro Tem, Arbitrator, and Mediator, Los Angeles County Superior Court
• Settlement Officer: State of California Court of Appeal, Second District
• California Judicial Council, Juvenile and Family Law Advisory Committee
• Sunday Free Legal Clinic, First AME Church of Los Angeles

Writings

Published a regular column in the State Bar Family Law News for 20 years.

Wrote a chapter “Valuation in Marital Dissolutions” in Financial Valuation: Business and Business Interests (Maxwell MacMillan 1990).

Published articles in:

• Barfbrief (Newsletter of the Beverly Hills Bar Association)
• The Century City Lawyer
• Los Angeles Daily Journal – California Law Business
• The California Lawyer
• Fair$hare
• California Litigation
• Los Angeles Lawyer
• The Bottom Line
• Family and Juvenile Law Newsletter (Oregon State Bar)
• California Lawyer
• Family Law News and Review
• Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
• Wrote and edited articles, program materials and book chapters for California Continuing Education of the Bar

Wrote and published book:

• Practical Reflections of a California Divorce Lawyer

Speeches

• Los Angeles County Bar Association Family Law Section
• State Bar of California
• University of La Verne College of Law
• Santa Barbara County Bar Association
• Century City Bar Association
• California Society of Certified Public Accountants
• Beverly Hills Bar Association
• Glendale Estate Planning Council
• Orange County Bar Association Family Law Section
• UCLA Department of Political Science
• San Fernando Valley Chapter, California Society of CPAs
• American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
• Century City Rotary Club
• California Trial Lawyers Association
• American Society of Women Accountants
• San Gabriel Valley Society of Certified Public Accountants
• Southern California Society of Certified Public Accountants
• Westwood Village Bar Association
• Southern California Society of Certified Family Law Specialists
• Los Angeles County Bar Association
• South Bay Estate Planning Council

Professional Teaching

• California CPA Education Foundation
• Century City Bar Association
• State Bar of Nevada
• California Continuing Education of the Bar
• State Bar of California
• Professional Education Systems, Inc.

Education

• University of California at Los Angeles B.A. and J.D.
• University of Bordeaux, France

Miscellaneous

• City of Los Angeles, Westside Neighborhood Council – past Board member, past Chair of Policies and Procedures Committee
• Fluent in French, conversant in Spanish and Italian