Gattey and Baranic

A Professional Law Corporation

2445 Fifth Avenue, Suite 350
San Diego, California 92101
Phone 619.232.8142

Facsimile 619.232.1235

 

James M. Gattey, Retired

    Mr. Gattey is a founding member of the firm, meeting the legal needs of San Diego area employees and employee organization for more than 40 years before retiring in 2008. Mr. Gattey received his bachelor of science degree in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley and a bachelor of laws from the University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law.

    Mr. Gattey served as a guest lecturer on numerous occasions for the University of California's Continuing Education of the Bar Program and for Lorman's Legal Education, lecturing before audiences in San Diego, Los Angeles and Orange counties.

 

    For more than ten years, Mr. Gattey also served as an adjunct professor for San Diego State University's Criminal Justice Administration Program and as a Judge Pro Tem for the Municipal Court of the San Diego Judicial District. 

 

    Mr. Gattey was also an adjunct professor with the San Diego Community College District's Labor Studies Program and an adjunct professor of law at the University of San Diego School of Law teaching Labor Law.

 

    Mr. Gattey retired from the active practice of law in 2008.
 


Admissions

State of California (Inactive)

United States District Court, Southern District of California

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit

United States Supreme Court

 

Notable Cases

Mr. Gattey's reported cases include:

Cook v. Superior Court of San Diego County (1970) 4 Cal.App.3d 822

Lopez-Ramirez v. Wilshire Insurance Co. (1970) 13 Cal.App.3d 622

People v. Botos (1972) 27 Cal.App.3d 774

People v. Callahan (1985) 168 Cal.App.3d 631

Paulino v. Civil Service Commission of the County of San Diego (1985) 175 Cal.App.3d 962

Laws v. County of San Diego (1990) 219 Cal.App.3d 189

San Diego Adult Educators, Local 4289, American Federation of Teachers/California Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO v. San Diego Community College District (1990) 223 Cal.App.3d 1124

Dibb v. County of San Diego (1994) 8 Cal.4th 1200

Shields v. Poway Unified School District (1998) 63 Cal.App.4th 955.