James B. Cohoon
Member
Email: jcohoon@bistlinecohoon.com

Practice Areas: Products Liability; Toxic Tort Defense; Construction Defects; Wrongful Termination; Insurance Defense.

Admitted: 1980, California, U.S. District Court, Central District of California and U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1983, Washington; 1993, Colorado (inactive)

Law School: University of San Diego School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1980

College: Washington State University, B.S., cum laude, 1976

Member: State Bar of California; Washington State, Colorado and American Bar Associations; Defense Research Institute; Association of Southern California Defense Counsel (Committee Chairman, 1985-1986).

Biography: Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Conflicts of Law. Phi Alpha Delta. Associate Editor, San Diego Law Review, 1980. Editor, "Mealy's Toxic Torts Litigation Reports," 1992-. Author: "Piercing the Doctrine of Corporate Hospital Liability," 17 San Diego Law Review 383, 1979; "Defeating Proximate Causation in Failure-to-Warn Cases," For the Defense 25, Oct. 1986; "Indoor Air Pollution: A Primer for Defense Counsel," For the Defense 12, August 1989; "Indoor Air Pollution: What Are the Risks? To Whom? Who is Potentially Liable? Theories of Recovery and Defenses," DRI Annual Symposium on Environmental Hazardous Waste and Toxic Tort Litigation, 1991.

Born: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, February 1, 1953

ISLN: 908292415