Member at the firm Lukens Law Group
Areas of Practice
Antitrust; Bank Fraud; Bank Litigation; Civil Litigation; Lender Liability; Intellectual Property Litigation; Tax Litigation
Admitted
1965, California and U.S. District Court, Northern, Eastern, Central and Southern Districts of California; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; U.S. District Court, District of Oregon; U.S. District Court, District of Columbia; U.S. District Court, Central District of Arizona; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of International Trade
Law School
Hastings College of Law, University of California, LL.B., 1964
College
University of California at Berkeley, B.S., 1960
Membership
Bar Association of San Francisco; State Bar of California; American Bar Association (Member, Sections on Antitrust and Business Law).
Biography
Special Counsel, bankruptcy proceedings. Featured in press and publications, including, "Lender Liability: Strategies of Litigation," by Arnold J. Wolf (Trial Law Press 1989. Associate Editor, Hastings Law Journal, 1963-1964. Author: "The Collateral Order Doctrine in California," 15 Hastings L.J., 1963. Equity Instructor, San Francisco Law School, 1996-1968. President, Affiliated Law Firms of San Francisco, LLC, 1997-2002. Principal, Lukens Law Group, 2002.
Reported Cases
Raynolds v. Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft, 275 Cal.App.2d 997 (1969); JBL Enterprises, Inc. v. Jhirmark Enterprises, Inc., 698 F.2d 1011 (9th Cir. 1983); In re James E.O'Connell Co., Inc., 799 F.2d 1258 (9th Cir. 1986); Eureka Federal Sav. and Loan Ass'n v. American Cas. Co. of Reading, Pennsylvania, 663 F.Supp. 1583 (N.D. Cal. 1987); In re James E. O'Connell., Inc., 82 B.R. 118 (N.D. Cal. 1988); Kruse v. Bank of America, 202 Cal.App.3d 38 (1988); Sun Village Farms v. Bowery Sav. Bank, 735 F.Supp. 945 (D.Ariz. 1990); Bank of America v. Superior Court, 220 Cal.App.3d 613 (1990).
Born
Los Angeles, California, April 3, 1939
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