Education

Duke University School of Law, J.D.

Dartmouth College, cum laude with Distinction in Economics, B.A.

United States Navy, Judge Advocate General's Corp., 1970-1974--Tried over 100 criminal cases as Defense Counsel

Hastings College of Trial Advocacy, instructor, 1980-1990

Director, Los Brezes Park Water District, 1977-1985

Professional Memberships

State Bar of California

Product Liability Advisory Counsel (attorneys must be sponsored by two manufacturers to be eligible for membership)

American Bar Association (Co-Chair, Environmental Coverage Subcommittee 2000)

PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION, 1974 to 1990

• One of two partners handling cases in California for major automobile manufacturers
• Settled or won at trial all cases including cases with trials that lasted more than 12 weeks
• Clients have also included manufacturers of aircraft, pipelines, transportation equipment, machine tools, and consumer products

ENVIRONMENTAL AND MASS TORT LITIGATION, 1979 to Date

• Supervised all aspects of environmental and asbestos coverage litigation as one of a small group of regional counsel for a major insurer. Provided overall guidance and strategy for trial of coverage and related litigation between an insurer and a major asbestos producer. Litigation ended with a national class action approved in the United States District Court in Texas, as well as a California appellate court decision confirming our position on assignments
• Tried and won one of the earliest cases alleging environmental contamination from chemicals, an 18-week trial
• Represented the Port of San Francisco in early litigation with the Regional Water Quality Control Board over pollution of San Francisco Bay. Cases eventually settled without damages under stipulated cleanup agreements

COMPUTER LITIGATION SUPPORT, 1980 to Date

• Pioneered development of computer litigation management systems which has captured all work product in full text to eliminate duplicative work
• All of our clients' discovery and testimony have been retained to simplify responses to discovery and ensure consistent positions

PUBLICATIONS

• Unfair Share--Liability Based on Market Presence is Not Strong Enough to Carry Lead Paint, published in San Francisco Daily Journal (June 14, 2000)
• Why Market Share Liability Doesn't Add Up, published in For the Defense (May 2000)
• Speculative Damages and Toxic Torts: Good Intentions Make Bad Law, For The Defense (May 1999)
• First Party Environmental Coverage Exclusions, Coverage (January/February 1998)
• Contributing Author, Expert Evidence, A Practitioner's Guide to Law, Science and the FJC Manual, West Publishing Company (1997)
• Non-Scientific Expert Testimony: Who is Watching the Gate in California?, California Litigation, Vol.  8, No. 3 (Spring 1995)
• Using Spoliation of Evidence in Products Liability Cases, California Litigation, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Fall 1992)
• RSI: Mass Tort Or Much Ado About Nothing, Andrews Repetitive Stress Injury Litigation Reporter (November 1995)