Among my professional accomplishments are the following:
I won a $5.5 million verdict against Pacific Gas & Electric Company for delivering defective electric power to an automated mushroom growing facility in San Luis Obispo County; I collected the judgment for my client after confirmation on an appeal which I also handled.
I won a $1.6 million award in an arbitration proceeding involving dissolution of a law partnership.
I settled a will contest for $1.5 million after obtaining reversal on appeal of an adverse trial court judgment.
I won a $965,000 verdict in a joint venture dispute involving a mortgage banking company in Sacramento; I settled the case for $1.3 million while the jury was deliberating punitive damages.
I won reversal on appeal of a verdict for plaintiff in an asbestos personal injury case, resulting in the frequently cited opinion in Smith v. ACandS (1994) 31 Cal.App.4th 77.
I won a rare defense verdict on behalf of an asbestos insulation contractor in a mesothelioma personal injury case.
I won a $2 million fraud and breach of fiduciary duty judgment for the elderly owner of a San Francisco neighborhood hotel after trial in a bankruptcy adversary proceeding.
I represented the owner-developer of the Bakersfield Convention Center Hotel in a lender liability action against a construction lender S & L, until the RTC took control of the S & L and obtained dismissal of the action under the D'Oench-Duhme doctrine.
I have also been lead counsel in cases producing the following published opinions:
- Beck v. Wecht (2002) 28 Cal.4th 289
- Barr v. ACandS (1997) 57 Cal.App.4th 1038
- Smith v. ACandS (1994) 31 Cal.App.4th 77
- California Restaurant Association v. City of Los Angeles (1987) 192 Cal.App.3d 405
- Local No. 19 v. NLRB (9th Cir. 1986) 785 F2d 796
- California Restaurant Association v. Henning (1985) 173 Cal.App.3d 340
- Porter v. Quillin (1981) 123 Cal.App.3d 1069
- California State Restaurant Association v. Whitlow (1976) 58 Cal.App.3d 340
- Foodmaker, Inc. v. Alcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board (1974) 10 Cal.3d 605
- Margetta v. Pam Pam Corporation (ND Cal. 1973) 354 F.Supp. 158, rev'd (9th. Cir. 1974) 501 F.2d 179
- Krause v. Sacramento Inn (9th Cir. 1973) 479 F.2d 988
I have filed amicus curiae briefs in the following cases which produced published opinions:
- Yu v. Alcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board (1992) 3 Cal.App.4th 286
- Laube v. Stroh (1992) 2 Cal.App.4th 364
- Cory v. Shierloh (1981) 29 Cal.3d 430
- People v. Los Angeles Palm, Inc. (1981) 121 Cal.App.3d 25.
