Vaughn, John R

For over 30 years, Tom Larmore has practiced real estate finance law, representing domestic and foreign commercial banks and other institutional lenders including Bank of America, Comerica Bank, Guaranty Federal Bank, Mizuno Corporate Bank, Transamerica and Union Bank of California. He has also represented major property owners and developers in real estate transactions and land use matters.

Larmore received his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of California at Los Angeles. He received his law degree from UCLA in 1968 after serving as an articles editor on the UCLA Law Review. After law school, Larmore served as a law clerk to Judge Shirley M. Hufstedler, then on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Following this one-year tenure, he worked in Washington, D.C. as a staff attorney for the Federal Reserve Board handling consumer credit matters, including Truth in Lending.

Since the early 1970s, Larmore has been in private practice, spending 20 years at Lillick & McHose and Pillsbury Madison & Sutro where he co-chaired the national real estate practice. He has lived in Santa Monica for 30 years and participated in a wide variety of civic affairs including the Santa Monica Planning Commission, Santa Monica Charter Review Commission, Santa Monica Area Chamber of Commerce (receiving five Chairman's Awards), the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Monica, the Jeffrey Foundation and the First United Methodist Church in Santa Monica. Larmore received the 2003 Small Business Advocate of the Year Award from the California Chamber of Commerce.

Larmore has also been active in legal and real estate professional organizations, serving on the Executive Committee of the Urban Land Institute's Los Angeles District Council and as its first chair, and speaking and writing on real estate matters. He has also been a lecturer teaching real estate law at the University of Southern California in its masters degree program in real estate development that is affiliated with the USC Lusk Center.