Stephen Kaus

Stephen Kaus is a judge in the Alameda County Superior Court, Oakland, California, appointed by Governor Jerry Brown, effective December 2012. Previous to his appointment Kaus was a partner practicing civil litigation attorney at Cooper, White & Cooper LLP in San Francisco, California and an occasional blog commentator on The Huffington Post. He is also the brother of journalist Mickey Kaus.

Employment

Prior to Cooper, White & Cooper, Kaus served as an adjunct professor in federal practice at the University of San Francisco from 1992 through 1996. Prior to that, he was a partner of the litigation firm of Kaus, Kerr & Wagstaffe from 1982 through 1990. Before going into private practice, Kaus was a deputy public defender in Contra Costa County. He served as an instructor in trial practice at the Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley from 1980 to 1984 and at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York in 1988.

This appointment establishes a second generation of judges in the Kaus family; Otto Kaus, father of Steve and Mickey, was a judge in three branches of the California judicial system.

Education

Kaus received his B.A. degree in political science, cum laude, from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1970. He also studied politics for a year at the University of Sussex. He received his J.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law in 1973.

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