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AT A GLANCE
Carpenter, Zuckerman & Rowley
8827 West Olympic Blvd. Beverly Hills, CA90211
(310) 273-1230 www.czrlaw.com
Trial Lawyers for Justice
421 W. Water Street 3rd Floor Decorah, IA 52101
(866) 854-5529 www.tl4j.com
Practice Areas
Medical Malpractice Personal Injury Wrongful Death
Education
Juris Doctor, La Verne Law School, 2001
Bachelor of Science, Park University, 1998
Professional Memberships Consumer Attorneys Association
of Los Angeles Consumer Attorneys of
California
Consumer Attorneys of San
Diego
American Association for Justice Iowa Association for Justice
Honors
Trial Lawyer of the Year, CAALA Trial Lawyer of the Year, CASD Community Involvement
Los Angeles Trial Lawyers
Charities, Board of Governors Imagination Workshop, Board of
Governors
Hobbies
Traveling Yoga
SCUBA diving
Family
10 Children: 7 boys, 3 girls
Gary Dordick is one of Rowley’s mentors.
ere’s an art and a science to impress every judge you walk in front of.”
strated patience with him and talked with him a er his cases to give him advice.
Attorneys Gary Dordick, Gerry Spence (of the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers’ College), Mark Geragos, Carney Shegerian (“Any judge he’s tried a case in front of will tell you he’s one of their favorite lawyers—so respectful.”), Roxanne Conlin, Paul Luvera and Rick Friedman (who practices in Washington state) were also huge mentors in his career, and he still looks up to them.
Of course, he can’t forget Courtney, from whom he says he still learns when they try cases together. “She’s amazing. She’s had a tre- mendous in uence on me,” he says.
“Each of those people has made me become a much better lawyer, to the point where most of the cases I have now the judges name me as one of their favorite lawyers,” he says, adding an important lesson: “ ere’s an art and a science to impress every judge you walk in front of.”
Clearly, Rowley has much wisdom to impart to other trial attorneys far beyond the “Hold your hand a certain way” and “Fluctuate your voice a certain way” tutorials, which is what some other lawyer train- ing programs advise.
“We teach people how to be themselves,” he says, “because there’s no one more powerful than you. Gerry Spence taught me that, and I am doing my best to pay it forward.”