our team
Julie Anne Ocheltree
Managing Partner
FAX: (310) 273-7635
Bio
Julie Anne Ocheltree is a recognized authority on the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act. She has 25 years of legal experience, mostly related to individuals with developmental disabilities, covering the practice areas of civil litigation, appellate law, criminal law, conservatorships, mental health law, administrative law, and writs of mandate. With such deep knowledge and experience, Julie is able to see the broad picture which includes the rights of individuals with developmental disabilities as set forth in the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Act, the California Code of Regulations, Title 17, the Probate Code, and the Penal Code, as well as the legal obligations and limits of those obligations of the State Department of Developmental Services, the Regional Centers, Regional Center vendors, county child protective services agencies, school districts and others mandated to serve and protect the rights of children and adults with developmental disabilities.
Before partnering with Judy Enright in 1999, Julie practiced as an associate for Judy’s predecessor firm. Before that, she was a litigation associate for two boutique civil litigation firms.
She honed her skills as a litigator while still in law school, working as an extern for the Orange County District Attorney’s Sexual Assault & Child Abuse Unit. She also served as an extern to the Presiding Justice of The California Court of Appeal, 4th Appellate District.
Julie earned J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law, graduating cum laude. She was a student staff member of the Southwestern Law Review. She is admitted to the California State Bar and the United States District Court (Central District). She earned her B.A. form California State University, Fullerton in Communications and a minor in Spanish, after studying in Barcelona, Spain. In high school, she was a volunteer at a local high school for students with developmental disabilities. In college, she worked as an admitting clerk in a hospital emergency room—which may well explain why she handles stressful situations so calmly and rationally.
Julie’s published decisions include Inland Counties Regional Center vs. Superior Court (2017) 10 Cal. App. 5th 820; In re Williams (2014) 228 Cal. App. 4th 989; Michelle K. vs. Superior Court (2013) 221 Cal. App. 4th 409; Conservatorship of Whitley (2007) 155 Cal. App. 4th 1447; Hayes vs. Dept. of Developmental Services (2006) 138 Cal. App. 4th 1523.
Aaron Abramowitz
Partner
FAX: (310) 273-7635
Bio
AARON is an attorney with Enright and Ocheltree, LLP, where he heads the Family Law department. He was formerly an associate at Family Law focused firms, Kolodny Law Group and Trope and Trope LLP. He has lectured on various issues in Family Law for the National Business Institute, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Beverly Hills Bar Association, and the Armenian Bar Association. Mr. Abramowitz earned his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and his J.D. degree from Loyola Law School.
Additionally, Aaron represents regional centers throughout the state of California in Administrative Hearings and in the Superior Court in Mental Health, Criminal, Civil, Dependency, and Writs and Receivers Departments and in the California Court of Appeal.
Aaron has extensive trial experience having tried well over 100 matters to judgment.
While attending Loyola Law School, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Judge Donna Goldstein of the Los Angeles Superior Court and graduated on the Dean’s List. Mr. Abramowitz also received the Outstanding Student Award from the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) for his indigent juvenile defense work through the Center for Juvenile Law and Policy at Loyola Law School. He currently sits on the board of Thrive | Survive, a project of the Giving Back Fund, a non-profit organization benefiting Los Angeles’ young adult cancer survivors.
Noelle Bensussen
Attorney
FAX: (310) 273-7635
Bio
Noelle holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School. She has practiced law for approximately 20 years in various fields, including, but not limited to, aviation law, family law, real estate law and non-profit law. She is a member of both the California Bar and the New York Bar. Ms. Bensussen has been at her present position with Enright & Ocheltree, LLP for over five years. In this position, she has successfully brought and opposed numerous motions in various departments of the California Superior Court, and Petitions for Writ of Mandate. Noelle has also successfully appealed Superior Court decisions to the California Court of Appeal, the most recent of which was published as Inland Counties Regional Center, Inc. v. Superior Court (2017) 10 Cal.App.5th 820. Noelle possesses exceptional skills in legal research and writing.
Judith A. Enright
Of Counsel
FAX: (310) 273-7635
Bio
Judith Addison Enright is a recognized authority on the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act.
Before partnering with Julie Ocheltree in 1999, she opened the Law Offices of Judith A. Enright in 1995, doing the same work. Before that, she was a litigation partner at Burke, Williams & Sorensen, in charge of representing regional centers.
Prior to that, she was a shareholder at what became known as Pachter & Schaffer, co-leading their business litigation unit. She joined them after kicking-off her 40-year law career as a research attorney in the Appellate Department of the Los Angeles Superior Court.
She earned her B.A. from UCLA, her J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law and is admitted to the California Bar and the United States District Court (Central District).
Judith Enright is a graduate of the first class of the Southwestern University SCALE Program, the only accredited two-year law school program in the U.S. While in law school, Judy clerked for the California Court of Appeal. Her clients appreciate her quiet, studied approach to winning cases. She lives in the Santa Monica Mountains and is always studying something.
Judith’s published decisions include Inland Counties Regional Center vs. Superior Court (2017) 10 Cal. App. 5th 820; In re Williams (2014) 228 Cal. App. 4th 989; Michelle K. vs. Superior Court (2013) 221 Cal. App. 4th 409; Conservatorship of Whitley (2007) 155 Cal. App. 4th 1447; Hayes vs. Dept. of Developmental Services (2006) 138 Cal. App. 4th 1523; Estate of Trynin (1989) 49 Cal.3d 868.