A Legacy in Law: Evan Granowitz Follows in Justice Kaufman’s Footsteps

Blood is thicker than water. The expression speaks true of Attorney Evan Granowitz’s relationship with his deceased grandfather Justice Marcus Kaufman, the 103rd justice on the Supreme Court of California. “To my sister, my cousins and me, he was our adored ‘Zaidi.’ His love for us knew no boundaries,” Granowitz said of his grandfather.

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Prior to his appointment as the Supreme Court justice in 1987, Marcus Kaufman served as an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Second Division for 17 years. During his study at the University of Southern California Law School, he was editor-in-chief of the Law Review, and graduated first in his class and an Order of the Coif in 1956.

Kaufman’s impressive track record in the field of law has inspired Evan Granowitz to follow in his footsteps, saying, “My sister and I have always recognized how privileged we were to have such a great man as a grandfather. But we were especially fortunate to have inherited his passion and calling to the law.”

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Justice Joyce Luther Kennard, the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California, who was a colleague and friend of Kaufman, and also a professor of Granowitz at U.C. Berkeley’s Boalt Hall, describes Granowitz as “the young Marc.” Granowitz eventually joined Kennard’s staff as an intern. “Shortly after Evan came on board, I called Marc and his wife Eileen to tell them how pleased my attorneys and I were with Evan’s high intelligence, his dedication to the job at hand, his thoughtfulness, and his capacity for hard work, the same qualities so evident in his grandfather,” Kennard said of Granowitz.

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