Kurt Schlichter makes his living as a civil trial lawyer and a partner at Schlichter & Shonack, LLP, in Manhattan Beach, California.

He is also a former stand-up comic and comedy writer who got his start in the 80’s reviewing bad movies for the UC San Diego student humor paper the Koala while simultaneously editing the California Review, the campus’s right-wing opinion journal. He double majored in Coors Light and alternative music appreciation, with an emphasis on the Replacements and the Clash.

After college, Kurt enlisted in the Army and was commissioned a lieutenant through Fort Benning’s infamous Officer Candidate School. He earned his jump wings from the Army’s Airborne School and spent over 24 years in the Army on both active duty and in the National Guard, rising to the rank of colonel and commanding the elite 1st Squadron, 18th Cavalry (Reconnaissance-Surveillance-Target Acquisition). He served in both Operation Desert Storm and in Operation Enduring Freedom in Kosovo, as well as in a half-dozen civilian support missions from the Los Angeles riots of 1992 to the 1994 Northridge earthquake. He commanded a reinforced battalion in northern San Diego during the fires of 2007.

He is a graduate of Loyola Law School ('94), where he was a law review editor, and as a lawyer represents a variety of clients in all manner of civil lawsuits. He's a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, an group for lawyers who have won trial verdicts in excess of $1 million. He has highly amusing stories about Hollywood-related cases but sadly cannot and will not discuss any of them.

Kurt writes frequently on cultural, political, legal and military issues. His writing has been published in the New York Post, Washington Examiner, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily Journal, San Francisco Examiner, Washington Times, and elsewhere, though it is unlikely any of them would admit it.

He has been a guest on the Hugh Hewitt Show, the Dennis Miller Show, Cam & Company, KABC's John Phillips Show, the Tony Katz Radio Spectacular, PJTV's The Conversation with Tony Katz, WMAL's The Big Show with Derek Hunter, the Alana Burke Show, and The Delivery with Jimmie Bise, Jr., among others. He is a frequent guest on, and occasional guest host of, the Larry O'Connor Show, and he usually appears with Cam Edwards on the NRA News radio show "Cam and Company" at 8:40 pm (Pacific) each Thursday to comment on whatever is going on in politics and culture.

He is also one of the handful of people in the world who have both graduated with a masters of strategic studies from the United States Army War College and had some low budget producers option his terrible, terrible zombie movie script.

He is an occasional public speaker, yet often shouts his insights at random passersby for free. But if you want to hire him, his email is below. However, he no longer does children's parties.

Kurt has lived in several exotic, alien and sometimes hostile foreign lands, like Europe, Asia and the San Francisco Bay Area. He now resides in the South Bay region of Los Angeles, where he enjoys its total lack of a traditional cold and snowy winter and its pervasive superficiality.

His interests include military history, film, and cooking red meat. His favorite caliber is .45.

The views he expresses are solely his own and not that of any governmental or other organization.

You can follow his commentary and general mischief as the #ConservaLifeCoach at @KurtSchlichter on Twitter, whatever the hell that is.

E-Mail: kas@sandsattorneys.com