Andrea Sheridan Ordin
Andrea Sheridan Ordin, Senior Counsel, Strumwasser and Woocher, has practiced law in both the public and private sectors. Her public service includes positions in county, state and federal government. She was appointed United States Attorney for the Central District of California by President Jimmy Carter, served as Chief Assistant Attorney General for the State of California, and the Los Angeles County Counsel.
In the private sector, Ordin served for 18 years as partner and senior counsel in the Los Angeles office of Morgan, Lewis, where she represented both corporate and governmental clients in environmental, antitrust and consumer litigation, and conducted internal corporate investigations.
Ordin has taught as an Adjunct Professor at the UCLA School of Law and Pepperdine University School of Law. She currently serves as Vice-President of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission.
Michael Jay Strumwasser
Michael J. Strumwasser is a founding partner of Strumwasser & Woocher LLP. His practice focuses on representing and advising public agencies and representing agencies and public-interest groups in large-scale judicial and administrative litigation in government law, economic regulation, education law, civil-rights, public finance, and environmental law. He is co-author of the Rutter Guide, California Administrative Law (with Michael Asimow, Herbert Bolz, and Laurine Tuleja).
Strumwasser represents and advises public officials and agencies, and also represents consumer, environmental, and labor organizations challenging governmental actions. He has represented both plaintiffs challenging official actions under open-meeting statutes and agencies defending their actions under those laws. He has appeared before state and federal courts and agencies, resulting in over 50 published appellate decisions.
Prior to the founding of Strumwasser & Woocher, Strumwasser served seventeen years with the California Department of Justice, the last eight years as Special Assistant Attorney General, where he handled some of the state's most important consumer-protection, antitrust, and environmental cases.
Strumwasser has written and lectured widely on administrative law and economic regulation. He holds A.B., M.S., and J.D. degrees from UCLA.
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