Shouse Law Group Law Clerk Mark Russ
When Case Manager and Law Clerk Mark Russ completes his current and final semester at Loyola Law School- Los Angeles, he will graduate with an impressive array of trial advocacy awards.
He joined the Shouse Law Group during his second year at Loyola, and managed to balance his work and studies with participation on the school's highly selective Byrne Trial Advocacy Team. Loyola's trial advocacy program ranks among the top five nationally.
As a result of his work on the Byrne Team, Mr. Russ has taken home both of the two top honors Loyola awards for achievement in trial advocacy - the "Honorable William M. Byrne, Sr. Award," named in memory of the famed federal judge from California and the "Excellence in Preparation for Trial Practice Award," an honor given jointly by the Dean of Loyola Law School and the prestigious American Board of Trial Advocates.
In 2010, he was voted Best Advocate for the Western Regional Student Trial Advocacy Competition by members of the California Chapter of the American Association for Justice.
Mr. Russ is a full time staff member who assists with motion practice, trial preparation, and content-development for the firm’s extensive website. He also handles client intake and has client relationship responsibilities.
He's also been to court with us. Following acceptance into the State Bar of California's student certification program, he served as co-counsel for a client falsely accused of California Penal Code 288 lewd acts with a child in a publicized jury trial where he helped the firm secure an acquittal.
He's also worked on a host of drunk driving cases and a homicide case.
Before entering the legal field, Mr. Russ wrote an honors thesis about the philosophical novel as part of his double major in History and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. His paper focused on such seminal works as Albert Camus' The Stranger and Fydor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamozof.
After graduation from USC, he transitioned from novels to films, holding creative development positions at Hollywood powerhouses like Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Spelling Television and Point Blank Entertainment.
Returning to his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia after several years in the entertainment business, Russ worked as a client account manager and project leader for an independent technology firm that produces original solutions for marketing and remote asset management. Among his clients were big-box retail stores, energy corporations, and city governments from New Orleans to Jerusalem.
Known to have a "good touch with the clients," Mr. Russ says that communicating with clients is one of the most enjoyable aspects of his work with the firm.
