Mark H. Oring

Mark H. Oring joined Baker and Oring, LLP as a partner in 1997. With a legal career spanning more than four decades, he focuses his practice on personal injury, malpractice, and insurance law in Marina del Rey and throughout California.

Since 1980, Mr. Oring's work has encompassed general tort practice, including medical and legal malpractice, elder abuse, and civil rights cases. As a litigator, he represents clients in trials and appeals in Federal and State Courts, including Superior and Appellate Court proceedings, arbitrations, and mediations.

Mr. Oring attended medical school at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium (coursework conducted in French) from 1963 to 1965, and later at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, where he earned his Certificate in Physical Therapy. He subsequently became licensed as a Registered Physical Therapist in Indiana and California. This medical background gives Mr. Oring a distinct advantage in conveying the true nature and severity of his clients' injuries to opposing counsel and jurors alike.

Bar and Court Admissions

  • California 1977

  • U.S. District Court, Central District

  • United States Court of Appeals, Ninth District

University Teaching Experience

In addition to his substantial trial experience, Mark Oring has broad experience teaching law at the university level.

He served as a Professor of Law at the University of West Los Angeles from 1987 to 2005, teaching Torts, Remedies, Real Property, Law and Medicine, Insurance Law, Contracts, and Personal Injury Litigation.

Prior to his legal career, he taught Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Literature and Languages at Indiana University from 1968 to 1970, and Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. Mr. Oring has also lectured extensively on legal writing and analysis, rhetoric, persuasive writing, public speaking, the anatomy of argument, and the use of persuasion in media.

Education

  • UC College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly Hastings), J.D., 1977

  • Indiana University, M.A., Comparative Literature, 1970

  • Queens College of the City University of New York, B.A., 1961

  • University of Southern California, Certificate in Advanced Personal Injury Litigation

  • Doctoral Candidate in Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, Department of Comparative Literature (coursework and doctoral exams completed)

  • Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium, Graduate Faculty of Medicine, 1963-65

  • Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, Certificate in Physical Therapy

  • Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

Languages

  • French

  • Hebrew (Classical and Modern)

  • Aramaic

Professional Activities and Honors

  • American Bar Association

  • State Bar of California

  • American Association for Justice

  • Consumer Attorneys Association of California

  • Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles

  • Academic Standards and Admissions Committee, University of West Los Angeles School of Law

  • UWLA School of Law Faculty Senate, 1993-94, 1995-97, present, Chairman 2001-2002

  • Former Judge Pro Tem of Van Nuys Municipal Court

Publications and Presentations

  • "Cheek v. U.S. and the Tax Protest Movement: A Historical Reassessment of the Sixteenth Amendment," 25 UWLA Law Review 197

  • "Peers of the Vicinage: Historical Abridgement of the Seventh Amendment right to Civil Jury Trial," 27 UWLA Law Review 165

  • "When Rights Collide: Hostile Work Environment v. First Amendment Free Speech," 31 UWLA Law Review 135

Civic Involvement

  • Former Chairman, Telecommunications Council, City of Bloomington, Indiana