Elizabeth Laporte
Elizabeth Laporte | |
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| U.S. Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California | |
| In office April 4, 1998[1][2] – October 25, 2019 | |
| Personal details | |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (B.A.) Oxford University (M.A.) Yale Law School (J.D.) |
Elizabeth D. Laporte is a former a United States Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. She retired from the court on October 25, 2019.[3] She previously served as the Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge for the District from 2013–2015.
Education[]
Laporte earned her undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1975, obtained a master's degree from Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar from 1975 to 1977, and received her Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1982.[4][1]
Career[]
Upon graduating law school, Laporte served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel, U.S. District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California from 1982 to 1983.[1][4]
From 1983-1991, Laporte worked as an Associate, and then became Partner at the law firm of Turner & Brorby.[1][4]
In 1991-1996, she served as an administrative law judge for the California Department of Insurance.[1][4]
From 1996-1998, Laporte was Chief of Special Litigation for the San Francisco City Attorney's Office.[1][4]
Judicial service[]
On April 4, 1998, Laporte was appointed as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of California.[1][5] She later served as Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge of the District from 2013-2015.[4]
Judge Laporte has also served as the Northern District of California's Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Magistrate Judge and chaired the Rules Committee's E-Discovery Subcommittee.[4] She is also a judicial observer for the Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production and a former member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's Bench Bar E-Discovery Committee.[1] At the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Judge Laporte has chaired the Magistrate Judge Executive Board and served on the Jury Trial Improvement Committee.[4] Judge Laporte also regularly speaks at legal conferences and judicial education programs on intellectual property, e-discovery, settlement, employment law and other topics and has authored articles on patent litigation, settlement and e-discovery as well.[4]
Judge Laporte further serves on the editorial board of the Federal Courts Law Review, the Board of Governors for the Northern California Chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers and the Judicial Advisory Board of The Sedona Conference.[4]
Judge Laporte is also the author of "Managing the Runaway Patent Case," an article published in the Summer 2003 issue of the Northern California Association of Business Trial Lawyers (ABTL) Report, and "Getting the Most Out of Judicial Settlement Conferences," published in the Winter 2006 issue.[1] She also served as a judicial reviewer to the Continuing Education of the Bar's (CEB's) California Civil Discovery Practice, and authored an article on the 2006 e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for CEB's Civil Litigation Reporter.[1]
She is also responsible for creating the Jenkins-Laporte doctrine with former U.S. District Judge Martin Jenkins.
Accolades[]
Laporte was named Lawyer of the Year by California Lawyer in 1996.[1]
She also received the Judicial Leadership award for the Electronic Discovery Institute in 2015.[4]
External links[]
- The Honorable Elizabeth D. Laporte, U.S. Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of California
- Extended Biography of Elizabeth D. Laporte
- Elizabeth LaPorte at Ballotpedia
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Magistrate Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte, https://www.cand.uscourts.gov/edlbio
- ^ Hon. Elizabeth Laporte, Bio, https://www.lawinstitute.org/the-faculty/personal?id=857
- ^ Lancaster, Alaina; PM, 2019 at 10:35 (April 19, 2019). "After 21 Years on the Federal Bench, Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Laporte to Retire". The Recorder. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Elizabeth D. Laporte, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, https://www.cand.uscourts.gov/edl
- ^ Judge Elizabeth Laporte, Ballotpedia, https://ballotpedia.org/Elizabeth_LaPorte
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