Law Offices of Eric Multhaup

COURT BAR MEMBERSHIPS

Eric was admitted to practice in California in December 1974, including the state courts of California, the federal courts of the Northern, Central, Eastern, and Southern Districts of California, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; admitted to the United States Supreme Court in 1991; and to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in 2008.

CERTIFIED SPECIALIST, APPELLATE LAW

By the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization

EDUCATION

University

Harvard College
Stanford University
Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley

Degree

B.A. (Economics, magna cum laude)
M.A. (Sociology)
J.D.

Date

1968
1971
1974

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Academy of Appellate Lawyers
California Academy of Appellate Lawyers
California Attorneys for Criminal Justice

EMPLOYMENT

January 1984 - present -- Private practice of law, specializing in post conviction writs and appeals in serious felony and capital homicide cases.

September 1984 - 1991 -- Senior Staff Attorney, half-time, at the California Appellate Project, One Ecker Place, San Francisco, CA 94105, (415) 495-0500. The California Appellate Project is a non-profit corporation established by the State Bar of California to recruit and assist counsel in the representation of indigent criminal and capital defendants before the California Supreme Court.

February 1978 - December 1983. -- Deputy State Public Defender, 221 Main Street, San Francisco, CA 94105. My responsibilities included a variety of criminal appellate functions, with a particular emphasis on capital appeals.

August 1975 - December 1977. Associate attorney, Law Offices of Barry Tarlow, 9119 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90069. My responsibilities included all aspects of state and federal criminal trial and appellate work.