Board of Directors
for City National Corporation (ticker symbol: CYN)

Ronald L. Olson
Director
City National Corporation

Partner
Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP

Ronald L. Olson is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP. Mr. Olson has practiced law with the firm since 1968. Mr. Olson also is a director of Berkshire Hathaway, Edison International, City National Corporation, The Washington Post Company and Western Asset Trusts. He serves as a director of several nonprofits, including the RAND Corporation (formerly chair), the Mayo Clinic, the Council of Foreign Relations, Southern California Public Radio (formerly chair), and the California Institute of Technology. He was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Claremont University Center and Graduate School from 1984-94.

Mr. Olson’s practice involves a combination of litigation and corporate counseling. He counsels individual executives and boards of directors in a range of matters, including transaction and corporate governance issues. Throughout his career, Mr. Olson has been the lead partner in numerous high-profile matters where clients have looked to the firm for advice and representation. Most recently, Mr. Olson has represented, among other clients:

• The Board of Directors of Yahoo! in connection with Microsoft’s proposed takeover and the Google outsourcing contract;
• General Reinsurance, Berkshire Hathaway’s subsidiary, being investigated by the SEC/DOJ/NYAG for its involvement with AIG and various finite insurance transactions;
• The Board of Trustees of the Getty Trust in connection with corporate governance and foreign government claims to its antiquities collection; and,
• Shell Oil Company in its 2006 U.S. Supreme Court victory (Dagher v. Shell Oil Company, et al.) and in the pending series of class actions claiming oil companies’ liability for the Katrina hurricane damage and global warming.

Mr. Olson received his B.S. degree from Drake University in 1963, his J.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1966, and a Diploma in Law from Oxford University, England, in 1967, at which time he was the recipient of a Ford Foundation fellowship. In 1967, Mr. Olson was an attorney for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and in 1968 clerked for Chief Judge David L. Bazelon, United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Mr. Olson was formerly Chairman of the Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary (1991-92), Chairman of the Litigation Section (1981-82), and Chairman of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee (1976-86) of the American Bar Association, and was Vice President of the Board of Governors of the State Bar of California (1986-87). He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Mr. Olson has received a number of awards for public service and pro bono activities.