Ralph W. Tarr
Partner
rtarr@andrewskurth.com
Suite 3700
Los Angeles CA 90017
P: 213.896.3136
F: 213.538.1018
Download v-cardRalph handles and tries civil litigation and appellate matters with respect to administrative, arbitration, and jury and non-jury judicial proceedings, seeking to resolve business disputes and personal injury claims in a broad range of substantive legal areas. Examples of those areas are: administrative law, bankruptcy law, complex commercial transactions, environmental law, Indian affairs, natural resources, probate and water. He practices before the United States Supreme Court and the lower federal courts, as well as the California Supreme Court, lower state courts, and the District of Columbia courts.
Ralph has extensive experience in various senior positions with the federal and California state governments. Those positions include, among others, Solicitor, US Department of the Interior, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Acting Assistant Attorney General, US Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel, US Administrative Committee of the Federal Register, US Western Water Policy Review Commission, US Border Environmental Plan Public Advisory Committee, California Secretary of State Voter Task Force, and staff assistant to California Governor Ronald Reagan. In response to the Alaskan Oil Spill in 1989, Ralph chaired an interagency steering committee overseeing the US government’s preparation of the natural resource damage assessment. In his practice, he utilizes the full range of this expertise to represent clients in federal and California state government relations matters, especially in the natural resources and environmental area.
Articles / Publications
Author
- Various Opinions of the Solicitor, US Department of the Interior
- Various Opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel, US Department of Justice
- “Managing Natural Resource Damage Assessment,” Malcolm L. Spaulding and Mark Reed (eds.), Oil Spills: Management and Legislative Implications, American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, pp. 383-395 (1990)
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“Protecting the Privacy of the Absent Patient: Rudnick v. Superior Court,” 27 Hastings Law Journal 99 (1976)
Professional / Civic Affiliations
Member
- Los Angeles County Bar Association
- Environmental Law Section
- Litigation Section
- Trust and Estates Section
- Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce
- Valley Industry and Commerce Association
- Board of Directors
- Vice Chairman
- State Bar of California
- Environmental Law Section
- Litigation Section
- Trust and Estates Section
- Committee to Confer with the California Medical Association (1980-1982)
- Federal Bar Association
- Administrative Law Section
- General Counsels Section, Chairman (1985-1986, 1986-1987)
Industries
Practice Areas
Education
- JD, 1976, University of California, Hastings College of the Law, Hastings Law Journal, Editorial Review Board, Order of the Coif, Thurston Society
- MPA, 1973, Public Administration, California State University, Sacramento, Phi Kappa Phi
- AB, 1970, magna cum laude, Government, Dartmouth College, Phi Beta Kappa, Daniel Webster National Scholarship
- Extern, California Supreme Court Justice William P. Clark, Jr.
- Research Attorney, George A. Brown, Presiding Justice, California Court of Appeal, Fifth Appellate District
Admitted
- California 1976
- District of Columbia 1984
- US District Court for the Central District of California
- US District Court for the Eastern District of California
- US District Court for the Northern District of California
- US District Court for the Southern District of California
- US District Court for the District of Columbia
- US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- US Supreme Court
