Mr. Potts is a partner at Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman LLP. His practice is concentrated in the areas of complex business litigation, constitutional law and appellate practice. He joined the firm at its inception in 1995.

Mr. Potts obtained a permanent injunction against destruction of Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre; recovered a million dollars embezzled from an entertainment venue development project; participated in defense of claims against a developer for a purported interest in a major retail shopping center; and participated in prosecution of claims on behalf of Cogent Systems, a publicly-traded automatic fingerprint identification system company, against Northrop Grumman for trade secret misappropriation in connection with a $250,000,000 fingerprint identification contract in the UK.

He has had primary responsibility as Defense Liaison Counsel and lead law and motion and appellate attorney in coordinated cases involving more than 730 plaintiffs and more than 65 defendants. He appeared as Amicus Curiae in the Supreme Court of California in support of the prevailing parties in Doe v. City of Los Angeles (2007) 42 Cal.4th 531, and Shirk v. Vista Un. Sch. Dist. (2007) 42 Cal.4th 201. He successfully opposed depublication of Hightower v. Roman Catholic Bishop of Sacramento (2006) 142 Cal.App.4th 759, by the Supreme Court of California and successfully opposed publication of Dengler v. Doe 1, 2007 Cal.App.Unpub. LEXIS 9536. He secured a change in status from unpublished to published in the Court of Appeal and successfully opposed depublication in the California Supreme Court before grant of review of Doe v. City of Los Angeles (2006) 137 Cal.App.4th 438.

He twice overturned defense summary judgments involving the duties of out-of-State attorneys representing California clients. Geddes v. Campbell, 2006 Cal.App.Unpub. LEXIS 10497, 2004 Cal.App.Unpub. LEXIS 2402. He preserved a summary judgment in favor of a title insurance company for an insured’s failure to disclose material information. Bank of San Diego v. Commonwealth Land Title Ins. Co. (1991) 231 Cal.App.3d 1265.
In additional to commercial and entertainment industry clients, he has represented the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego, former members of the Church of Scientology against the Church of Scientology and victims of unlawful human experimentation.

Education
Hastings College of the Law, University of California, San Francisco, J.D., 1986; AmJur Award in Torts; Articles Editor, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly
University of California, Davis, Ph.D., Political Science/Public Policy 1978
San Jose State University, B.A., 1972; MA, 1974

Professional Activities
Admitted: California; United States Court of Appeals for 9th Circuit; United States District Courts: Central District, Eastern District, Northern District and Southern District of California
Member, California State Bar, American Bar Association, and Los Angeles County Bar Association.
Member, California State Bar Committee on the Administration of Justice, 1989-1993
Director, Criminal Justice Program, University of Mississippi,1978-1983
Chief Executive Officer, Domestic Violence Project of Oxford, Mississippi, 1979-1983
Consultant to the National Institute of Corrections, 1983-1984; police consultant on sexual assault, 1978-1983

Publications:
“Responsible Police Administration" (1983) University of Alabama Press
"Values Clarification In Criminal Justice Education" (1985) 10 Criminal Justice Review 52
"Common Law And The Legal Fiction Of The Citizen Policeman" (1984) 13 Anglo-American Law Review 53
"Custodial Detention And Regime Maintenance In The Republic Of South Africa" (1984) 10 N.E. Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement 301
"Equal Employment Opportunity And Female Employment In Police Agencies" (1983) 11 Journal of Criminal Justice 505
"Female Professionals In Corrections: Equal Employment Opportunity Issues" (1983) 47 Federal Probation 37
"The Police And Determinants Of Rape Prosecution: Decision Making In A Nearly Decomposable System" (1983) 6 Police Studies: The International Review of Police Development 37
"Criminal Liability, Public Policy And The Principle Of Legality In The Republic Of South Africa" (1982) 73 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 1061
"Law As A Tool Of Social Engineering" (1982) 5 B.C. International and Comparative Law Review 1
"Police Leadership" (1982) 10 Journal of Police Science and Administration 189
"Police Professionalization" (1982) 7 Criminal Justice Review 51
"The Limits Of Police-Community Relations Programs" (1982) 5 Police Studies: The International Review of Police Development 10 "Equal Employment Opportunity And Female Criminal Justice Employment" (1981) 4 Police Studies: The International Review of Police Development 9
"Higher Education, Ethics And The Police" (1981) 9 Journal of Police Science and Administration 131
"Integrating The Chief Of Police Into The Municipal Administrative Process" (1980) 5 Criminal Justice Review 12
"Conflict Patterns In New California Regulatory Agencies" (1978) Institute of Governmental Affairs, University of California, Davis