LINDA L. NORTHRUP

Founding Partner

northrup.jpg Linda Northrup, a founding partner of Northrup Schlueter, was admitted to the California Bar in 1981 and founded the firm as a sole practitioner in 1996. She has been representing individuals and institutional clients in sophisticated business, real estate and construction matters for her entire legal career. Ms. Northrup regularly acts as lead trial counsel and handles related appeals in the California state and federal courts. She is admitted to and has appeared before the United States Supreme Court and was successful in preserving a defense judgment in favor of her client handed down by the trial court and affirmed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Northrup has been involved in real estate transactional work for over 20 years and has represented clients in both residential and commercial purchase, sale, lease and finance transactions ranging from single family homes to multi-story commercial buildings and developments.


BAR ADMISSIONS
  • California Supreme Court
  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, All Districts of California

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
  • Hastings College of Law, University of California, J.D., 1981
  • University of California at Los Angeles, B.A., cum laude, 1978

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
  • California SuperLawyer 2007

ARTICLES
  • Locked Out: In fighting a potential foreclosure, the time to act is before the sale takes place. LOS ANGELES LAWYER MAGAZINE, February 2008. Available for download here.

  • Book Review – The Invisible Bar: Women Lawyers in America 1638 to the Present. LOS ANGELES DAILY JOURNAL.


REPORTED CASES
  • Humes v. Margil Ventures (1985) 174 Cal.App.3d 486
  • In re Southwest Aircraft (1987) 831 F.2d 848
  • Continential Housing/FDIC (1996) 83 F.3d 1054, certiorari denied (1997) 519 U.S. 1091.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS
  • Los Angeles County Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Women Lawyers' Association of Los Angeles
  • Business Litigation Inn of Court
  • Complex Litigation Inn of Court (1999-2006)

LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
  • Women Lawyers' Association of Los Angeles, Trial Advocacy Workshop; "Organizing Documents For Use at Trial”; "Fundamentals of Law and Motion Practice," CEB/WLALA; "Jury Instructions and Related Issues", Trial Practice Inn of Court, LACBA; "Selected Topics in California Environmental Law", AIG; "Trial Practice", In-house Training, Office of the United States Trustee.