Gabriel Leif Bellman, ATTORNEY AT LAW
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Gabriel L. Bellman worked at York, Hanawalt & Brock, primarily in the area of insurance defense, before opening his own firm. He has been a member of the Alameda County Court Appointed Criminal Attorney panel, the S.F. Trial Lawyer's Association, American Bar Association, Aids Legal Referral Panel, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. Mr. Bellman is licensed to practice law by the order of the Supreme Court of California, in the state of California, and federally by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. District Court for Northern California.
He received
his B.A. cum laude in 1995 from the University of Southern California School
of Cinema-Television. While at USC he was awarded the Cinema Circulus Award
for academic excellence. In 1999, he received his M.A. cum laude from New
York University in Social Thought. He worked as a television producer at
MTV, primarily involved in the “True
Life” series. He studied overseas at the International Institute
in Madrid, Spain, and at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.
After moving back to the West Coast, he graduated with a J.D. from U.C. Hastings College of the Law in 2005. While at Hastings, he completed a clinical program in group advocacy, worked at a drug policy think-tank, and argued preliminary hearings for felonies at the San Francisco Public Defender's Office. His basketball career reached its pinnacle with a Los Angeles “City League” 3-on-3 crown while at USC in 1995. He has been a freelance writer for SOMA magazine since 1997.