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Edward J. Rutyna graduated magna cum laude in the top 15 percent of his class from Boston College in 1982. He continued his education at George Washington University where he received a Juris Doctorate degree in 1985 and participated in volunteer work for the IRS as well as for a nonprofit elder law legal clinic. Ever the student, Mr. Rutnya completed a LL.M. (Master of Law) degree in Taxation at Chapman University in 2006. Ed has been a licensed attorney in California since 1986 and is also admitted to practice in his home state of Massachusetts. Mr. Rutyna commenced his California career as a legal intern in the Huntington Beach City Attorney’s office in 1985. He was appointed a Deputy City Attorney in 1986 where he served until 1988. From 1988 to 1996, he worked at a now defunct workers’ compensation defense firm, Mouser, Channels & Giddens, first as an associate and later (1991-1996) as a partner. From 1996-2005, Mr. Rutyna maintained his own legal practice in Fountain Valley, handling both workers’ compensation and civil litigation. He taught a workers’ compensation course from 1990-1995 in the Paralegal Studies Program at Rancho Santiago College in Orange County, and he has also lectured on workers’ compensation matters for the California Continuing Education of the Bar, the Orange County Bar Association, the National Business Institute and the Insurance Education Association. Over his twenty-five career, Mr. Rutyna has tried well over two-hundred workers’ compensation cases, authored multiple Petitions for Reconsideration and Answers to Petitions for Reconsideration, and has been the attorney of record on over twenty briefs before the California Courts of Appeal. Mr. Rutyna also successfully tried a wrongful termination and California Fair Employment and Housing (FEHA) case in Orange County Superior Court on behalf on an Orange County city in which the settlement demand was over $700,000 through trial. He also successfully represented another Orange County city in an Americans for Disabilities Act claim before the Federal Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) in San Diego. In recognition of his professional stature as determined by his peers, Mr. Rutyna has been rated a pre-eminent attorney (AV rating) by Martindale-Hubbell since 1998. Ed has served a volunteer Judge Pro Tempore at multiple venues of the WCAB since 1991 and he also previously served as a Judge Pro Tempore for small claims and traffic court at the Orange County Municipal Court. He was also an arbitrator for the Long Beach Bar Association’s attorney-client fee dispute program.
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