Julie D. Cantor
Of Counsel / Santa Monica

P: 310-237-5820
F: 310-382-9975

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As both a lawyer and graduate of the Yale University School of Medicine, Julie is particularly skilled at handling cases on behalf of medical and pharmaceutical industry clients. In recent years, she represented a group of critical care experts as amicus curiae in Baze v. Rees, a case that challenged Kentucky’s lethal injection protocol, and co-authored their brief to the United States Supreme Court on the role of paralytic agents in end-of-life care. She has also represented a client on Nevada’s Death Row in an appeal to the state’s high court involving DNA-related issues, a national non-profit organization in a matter involving patient privacy, and a hospital under investigation for alleged improprieties in its transplant program. Julie is also a member of the UCLA Law faculty where she teaches an upper-division seminar entitled, Reproductive Rights, Medical Ethics & the Law.

In addition to her involvement on medically related matters, Julie has represented clients across a diverse spectrum of issues—from art law and bankruptcy law to complex civil litigation and SEC investigations. A creative thinker and skilled presenter, she has created unique multi-media presentations that have led to favorable results for her clients.

Julie has also maintained her connection to academics. She has lectured on various topics in medical ethics and law at top universities, and her writing has been published in several law reviews and medical journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine.

  • Pan v. Medtronic, Inc.

    Represented The Innocence Network and an academic forensic pathologist in the Indiana Court of Appeals on an amicus curiae brief that argued that forensic evidence admitted at the trial of Purvi Patel was unreliable and inadmissible.

    Patel v. State of Indiana

    Represented The Innocence Network and an academic forensic pathologist in the Indiana Court of Appeals on an amicus curiae brief that argued that forensic evidence admitted at the trial of Purvi Patel was unreliable and inadmissible.

    Matters adverse to Irving H. Picard, Trustee for Consolidated Estates of Bernard L. Madoff and Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities

    Represented the children and the estate of Norman F. Levy in reaching the first settlement between the Trustee and a family of investors.

    Marei von Saher v. Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena

    Represented world-renown art museum in dispute regarding title to the diptych Adam and Eve by Cranach the Elder

    Televisa S.A. de C. V. v. Univision Communications Inc.

    Represented broadcasting company Univision in a contract dispute with its major programming supplier.

    McDonald v. Chicago

    Represented groups interested in protecting public health in a case that questioned the applicability of the Second Amendment to the states and co-authored amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court of the United States.

    Baze v. Rees

    Represented critical care experts in a case that challenged Kentucky’s lethal injection protocol and co-authored amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court of the United States on the role of paralytic agents in end-of-life care.

  • City of Los Angeles v. Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles

    Represented PPLA in a matter involving privacy rights and the scope of government subpoena powers.

    Investigation of St. Vincent's Hospital

    Represented hospital during investigation by government for alleged improprieties in its transplant program.

    Investigation of pharmaceutical company

    Represented a pharmaceutical company under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

    Bolin v. McDaniel

    Represented a client on Nevada’s Death Row in an appeal to the state’s high court involving DNA-related issues.

    • Of Counsel, Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP
    • Associate, Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP
    • Associate, Munger Tolles & Olson LLP
    • University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (J.D.)
      • California Law Review, Articles Editor
      • American Jurisprudence Award, Courts & Social Policy
      • Prosser Prize, Torts
      • Oral Advocacy Award, Moot Court
    • Yale Law School (Visiting Student)
    • Yale University School of Medicine (M.D.)
    • Stanford University (B.A., Psychology; M.A., Psychology)
      • Stanford-in-Government Fellow, Office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy
      • Intern, ABC News Nightline
      • The Stanford Daily, writer, editor, columnist
      • Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics (Honorable Mention)
    • Adjunct Professor, UCLA School of Law
    • Lecturer, Yale University
    • Grand Rounds Speaker, Yale University School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, University of Minnesota Medical School and Law School, University of Pittsburgh Schools of Medicine and Law, and UCLA School of Medicine

  • Ken Baum, Jennifer Greenblatt & Julie Cantor, Assessing the Post-Riegel Landscape: The Effect of Sales Representatives’ Actions on Preemption Analysis, Drug, Device and Biotechnology IADC Committee Newsletter (March 2014)

    Bracing for the Impact of Expanded Second Amendment Rights, 363 New Eng. J. Med. 506 (2010)

    Conscientious Objection Gone Awry – Restoring Selfless Professionalism in Medicine, 360 New Eng. J. Med. 1484 (2009)

    Class Actions 101: What Are These Lawsuits All About, Anyway?, Class Actions & Derivative Suits Rep. (Winter 2009)

    Cosmetic Surgery: When Fifty Doesn’t Feel Fabulous, 9 Virtual Mentor: Am. Med. Ass’n J. Of Ethics 410 (2007)

    When Contraceptives Clash with Conscience, Whose Rights Prevail?, 33 Human Rights 18 (2006)

    When an Adult Female Seeks Genital Alteration: An Ethical and Legal Analysis, 117 Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery 1158 (2006)

    Of Pills & Needles: Involuntarily Medicating the Psychotic Inmate when Execution Looms, Indiana Health L. Rev. (Spring 2005)

    Cosmetic Dermatology and Physicians’ Ethical Obligations: More than Just Hope in a Jar, 24 Seminars In Cutaneous Med. & Surgery 155 (2005)

    Response to Letters, Pharmacists and Emergency Contraception, 352 New Eng. J. Med. 942 (2005)

    The Limits of Conscientious Objection: May Pharmacists Refuse to Fill Prescriptions for Emergency Contraception?, 351 New Eng. J. Med. 2008 (2004)

    On Training and the Pre-Clinical Sciences, Yale J. Humanities In Med. (2001)

    Young & Old, 17 J. Gen. Internal Med. 790 (2001)

    Privacy Protections for Cybercharts: An Update on the Law, 285 JAMA 1767 (2001)

    Book Note, Inside a Half-Court Press: Television News & the Supreme Court, 88 Cal. L. Rev. 1609 (1999)

    • Supreme Court of the United States
    • State of California
    • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    • U.S. District Courts for the Central, Northern, Southern, and Eastern Districts of California