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| | Address | | 901 Clay Street | | Oakland, California 94607 | | (Alameda Co.) | |  | Free Initial Consultation |
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| | Contact Information | | Phone: 510-267-0500 | Fax: 510-267-0506
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Sterns & Walker practices in the following areas of law:
Limited to Plaintiff's Civil Trial Litigation, including Aviation, Personal Injury, Products Liability, Hazardous Materials, Professional Liability, Insurance Bad Faith, Environmental Torts, Admiralty and Commercial Litigation, Sexual Harassment, Wrongful Termination, Toxic Torts, Employment Discrimination. | | Year Established: 1977 | Firm Profile:
Sterns & Walker is a small, highly specialized plaintiff's litigation referral firm with over forty years' experience, concentrating primarily on major aviation, products liability and other major catastrophic claims, both nationally and overseas, with affiliations in many countries. The firm has been involved in many general aviation and helicopter cases, as well as most of the major air crash carrier cases worldwide for many years, with experience in the areas of Warsaw Convention litigation, Forum Non Conveniens and choice of law. The firm also has acted for the families of many pilots and crew in some major crashes. The firm works with participating other counsel. Paris Air Disaster, American Airlines DC-10 Chicago, PSA San Diego Midair collision, Sioux City DC-10, Tenerife, Lockerbie Pan Am, Lauda Air Thailand, Swissair 111, Korea 801 at Guam, Alaska Air 261 and Singapore 006, Taiwan are among the better known cases in which the firm has been involved. The firm also represents numerous victims of the Kenya and Tanzania U.S. Embassy bombing attacks in 1998 and is reviewing cases arising out of the September 2001 terrorist attacks, and applicability of the federal compensation legislation and special master program. The firm has been recognized for high professional legal standards and ethics in the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, 86th ed. The firm successfully handled Olympic Airways v. Husain, 540 U.S. 644 (2006); 124 S. Ct. 1221 (2004); 157 L. Ed. 2d 1146, a landmark case for passenger rights in the United States Supreme Court. | | Firm Size: 5 | Languages:
English, Spanish, French and German. | References:
Mechanics Bank; Firs Republic Bank, San Francisco; California Bank of Commerce, Lafayette; Wells Fargo Bank, Oakland, California. | Rate Information:
Fixed Hourly Rates
Fixed Fees Available
Free Initial Consultation
| | MEMBERS OF FIRM | | Gerald C. Sterns (Member) born Oakland, California, June 28, 1932; admitted to bar, 1960, California; U.S. District Court, Northern, Central and Southern Districts of California, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court; 1983, Hawaii. Education: State University of Iowa (B.S.C., 1954); Hastings College of Law, University of California (J.D., 1959). Order of the Coif; Thurston Society (scholastic honor); Phi Delta Phi. Editor-in-Chief, Hastings Law Journal, 1958-1959. Author: "Air Crash Cases in the United States," 45-46 Netherlands Juristenblad 1109; "The Liability of the Airframe and Component Manufacturer," "How Much is the Plaintiff at Sea with Warsaw?", SMU Air Law Symposium, Journal of Air Law and Commerce; "A Comparative Look at Products Liability Law in the United States and Europe," Beaumont & Sons-Cabinet Garnault Inaugural International Aviation Conference, London 1992; "Deep Vein Thrombosis: A New Kind of Accident" Under Warsaw? Embry-Riddle Aviation Symposium, 2002. Member of Faculty, San Francisco Law School, 1964-1985; Hastings College of Advocacy. Judge Pro-Tem and Judicially Appointed Arbiter, San Francisco Superior Court (Mediator, selected cases). Named as one of California's "Trial Lawyer of the Year," California Lawyer, 2000. Chairman, Torts and Insurance Practice Aviation Section, American Bar Association, 2003-2004. Member: Bar Association of San Francisco; Alameda County and American Bar Association; The State Bar of California; International Academy of Trial Lawyers (Fellow); Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Lawyers Club of San Francisco; American Board of Trial Advocates; Society of Air Safety Investigators; American Judicature Society; American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys; San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association; California Trial Lawyers Association (Member at Large, Board of Governors). Recognized, "Best Lawyers in America" and "Super Lawyers". Listed, Martindale Hubbell Register of Preeminent Firm. (Member of California Trial Lawyers Association, with recognized experience in the fields of Trial Lawyer, General Personal Injury, Professional Negligence and Product Liability). Reported Cases: Katsuko Hosaka v. United Airlines, 305 F.3d 989 (9th Cir. 2002); Husain v. Olympic Airways, 316, F.3d 829 (9th Cir. 2002); Olympic Airways v. Husain, 540 U.S. 644; 124 S. Ct. 1221 (2004); 157 L. Ed. 2d 1146. Practice Areas: Domestic and International Aviation Litigation; Personal Injury; Professional Liability; Products Liability; Environmental Torts. Email: Gerald C. Sterns | | Elizabeth W. Walker (Member) born Washington, D.C., August 7, 1947; admitted to bar, 1975, California and U.S. District Court, Northern District of California; 1976, U.S. District Court, Central District of California. Education: University of California at Davis and Oregon State University (B.A., 1969); Hastings College of Law, University of California (J.D., 1975). Professor, Tort Law, San Francisco Law School, 1978-1982. Trial Practice, Alameda County Bar, 1996-1999. Member: Bar Association of San Francisco; State Bar of California; California Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Litigation Section). Practice Areas: Aviation; Personal Injury; Products Liability. Email: Elizabeth W. Walker | | —————————— | | Brenda D. Posada (Associate) born San Francisco, California, November 10, 1965; admitted to bar, 1991, California, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit and California Supreme Court; 2002, U.S. District Court, Central District of California; 2003, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California; 2004, U.S. District Court, Southern District of California. Education: University of San Francisco (B.A., 1987; J.D., 1990); Université de la Sorbonne, Paris, France (Certificate, 1988); Santa Clara University School of Law (Certificate of Completion, International Law Summer Program, 1990). Vice President of Communications, San Francisco La Raza Lawyers Association, 1995. Author: "A Deceased Plaintiff's Right to Pain and Suffering Damages: Til Death Do Us Part?" San Francisco Barrister Law Journal, Vol. 12, No. 8, August 1993. Co-Editor, San Francisco Barristers Law Journal, 1995. Member: The State Bar of California; San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association; California Trial Lawyers Association; Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Lawyers Pilots Bar Association. Reported Cases: Bosdorf v. Sinnamon, 804 So.2d 500 (Fia. App. Dist. 3, 12/26/2001). Languages: French and Spanish. Practice Areas: Personal Injury; Product Defect; Aviation Law; Medical Malpractice. Email: Brenda D. Posada | | Eric M. Steinle (Associate) born Berkeley, California, September 27, 1951; admitted to bar, 1999, California; 2001, U.S. District Court, Northern and Central Districts of California; 2002, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 2003, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; 2002, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California. Education: University of California at Riverside (B.A., with honors, 1972); University of California at Berkeley (M.A., 1975; Ph.D., 1984); University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D., 1998). Member: State Bar of California; American Bar Association; San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association; Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Consumer Attorneys of California. Languages: French. Practice Areas: Personal Injury; Aviation Law. Email: Eric M. Steinle | | OF COUNSEL | | Udo Büdding (Of Counsel) born Eschwege, Germany, November 23, 1965; admitted to bar, 1994, Germany; 1997, California; 2001, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California. Education: Golden Gate University (LL.M., International Law, 1996); University of Frankfurt, Germany (J.D., equivalent, 1991). Member, German-American Chamber of Commerce of the Western United States. Member: Bar Association of San Francisco; American Bar Association; Bar Association (Rechtsanwaltskammer) of Frankfurt, Germany. Languages: German, Spanish and French. Practice Areas: International Commercial Law; Corporate Law; Aviation Law. Email: Udo Büdding | Other Office Addresses:
San Francisco, California Office: 580 California Street, 94104. Telephone: 415-255-4700. Fax: 415-255-4747.
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