William Hirsch

William Hirsch launched his production career in order to produce films dealing with critical, cutting edge political, social and cultural themes. Since establishing Peer Review Films with Scott Verges, he has produced Reversion, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, and is working on various other projects, including films about the religious right and the literary hoax and cultural icon, JT LeRoy. Hirsch has been a respected consumer protection attorney with Lieff Cabraser Heimann and Bernstein, LLP. He is a member of the Bar Association of San Francisco, State Bar of California, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and the ACLU of Northern California. He received his law degree from Harvard University, M.A. from Princeton University, and B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Hirsch is the author of “Justice Delayed: Seven Years Later & No End In Sight” in The Exxon Valdez Disaster: Readings on a Modern Social Problem.