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GURNEY E.
NEWLIN
A member of the bar of California whose record reflects credit on the legal history of the state is Gurney E. Newlin, senior member of the firm of Newlin & Ashburn, of Los Angeles. He is a native of Kansas, and was born in 1880 at Lawrence. After attending public schools he studied at Haverford School for two years, then entered the University of California, graduating with the B. L. degree in 1902. His legal training was received at Harvard which conferred on him the LL. B. degree in 1905.
Mr. Newlin specializes in corporation law, and has achieved splendid success in that branch of jurisprudence. He has been connected with many important pieces of civil litigation, and he accepts no criminal cases. In 1917 he served as a member of the State Council Section, Council of National Defense, and he was in charge of nine western states as representative of this body. In 1918 he was Wage Adjustment Examiner in the Southern District of California for the United States Shipping Board. In the same year he served as Chairman of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Red Cross, and the following year was selected as Deputy Commissioner to France by that organization with the rank of Major in the United States Army. In recognition of his achievements the government of France conferred on him the Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise.
Mr. Newlin is a member of the International Law Association, The American Bar Association, State Bar of California, Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is active in the affairs of the various associations, having served as a member of the Executive Committee of the American Bar Association from 1923 to 1926, Chairman of the Section of Mineral Law, and a member of a special committee on supplements to the Canons of Professional Ethics. He has also served as Chairman of the Section on Uniformity of State Laws of the California State Bar Association from 1908 to the dissolution of this organization in 1927, and he is at present Vice Chairman of the Committee on Professional Ethics of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.
He holds membership in the California Club, University Club, Los Angeles Country Club, Midwick Country Club, Cerritos Gun Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Links Club and D. K. E. Club of New York, and Bohemian Club and Pacific Union Club of San Francisco.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: "American Blue Book California Lawyers"
by H. James Boswell, Pages
36-37, Produced by H.
James Boswell, 1928.
© 2008 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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