Kurt L. Schmalz

Kurt L. Schmalz is a business litigator with over 20 years of experience in the state and federal courts. He has handled litigation of substantial size and complexity in the areas of real estate, antitrust, insurance and insurance coverage, business torts, professional liability, intellectual property/trade secrets, product liability, First Amendment/media law and bankruptcy.

Mr. Schmalz has published articles on the subjects of expert witnesses, civil procedure, constitutional rights, privacy, the First Amendment and copyright law, and conflicts of interest. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Los Angeles Lawyer magazine and its former Chairman. He is a former Chairman of the Planning Commission for the City of Redondo Beach. From April 2001 to April 2005, Mr. Schmalz served as an elected member of the Redondo Beach City Council. While on the council, Mr. Schmalz served a one-year term as the city's Mayor Pro Tem and was a member of the Ethics Education Task Force for the League of California Cities. He has also served as an adjunct faculty member at Pepperdine University, teaching a course in Mass Communications Law. In addition, he has been a lecturer on legal ethics and professional responsibility and has testified in court as an expert on legal ethics and the Rules of Professional Conduct for lawyers.

Mr. Schmalz received a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree in 1983 from the Vanderbilt University School of Law where he was the Senior Articles Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review. Before becoming a member of Lurie, Zepeda, Schmalz & Hogan, Mr. Schmalz was a litigator in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Mr. Schmalz is “AV” rated by Martindale-Hubbell, and was rated by his peers as one of Southern California’s “Super Lawyers” for 2004 and 2006.

Articles Written by Kurt L. Schmalz:
"Book review of: The Moral Compass of the American Lawyer"

"Deconstructing Cumis"

"Summary Judgment:
A Dress Rehearsal for Trial"

"Warrentless Aerial Surveillance:
A Constitutional Analysis"

"On the Receiving End"