John D. Bishop

As a partner at Ray & Bishop, PLC, Mr. Bishop has represented hundreds of licensed professionals throughout California, including more than 100 individual administrative proceedings as lead counsel.  From 2018 through 2022, Mr. Bishop was named a Super Lawyers Rising Star in the Orange County legal community.    

Mr. Bishop serves as a law professor and the director of competitions at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law in Orange, California.  Since 2011, Mr. Bishop has served as a judge at regional and national high school, undergraduate, and law school mock trial and moot court competitions throughout the year.  When not in the office or the classroom, Mr. Bishop enjoys city league recreational sports, where he has won championships in softball in Newport Beach, Orange, and Irvine, basketball championships in Anaheim and Orange, and a volleyball championship in Brea.

Mr. Bishop received his Juris Doctor cum laude from Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law.  His advocacy was nationally recognized during his academic career, receiving multiple awards for oral and written advocacy as a member of Chapman’s Moot Court and Mock Trial Boards. He also served as Submissions Editor for the Chapman Law Review. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Southern California. Prior to attending law school, he worked as a television producer for Fox Sports West in Los Angeles, California.