Biography

Master, San Francisco Lawyers Club Inns of Court, 1998—. Author: Publications: "Civil RICO Against Fraudulent Enterprises," in Civil RICO Practice: Causes of Action, H. Brown, ed., John Wiley Sons, Inc. New York, 1991.

Practice Areas

• Complex Business Litigation
• Business Fraud
• Business Torts
• Securities Litigation
• Shareholder Derivative Actions
• Insurance
• Theft of Trade Secrets
• Nonprofit Organizations Law
• Business Litigation
• Franchises
• Legal Malpractice
• Securities Fraud
• Securities Fraud Arbitration
• Breach of Contract
• Corporate Law
• Franchises and Franchising
• Insurance Bad Faith
• Americans with Disabilities Act
• Wrongful Termination
• Appellate Practice
• Litigation
• Shareholder Agreements
• Shareholder Disputes
• Shareholder Rights
• Trade Secrets
• Unfair Competition
• Business Law

Education

• University of California
• Hastings College of the Law
  1974
• Dartmouth College
• Hanover
• New Hampshire
  1969

Associations

• State Bar of California (Member, Litigation Section).

Admissions

• California 1974
• Hawaii 1989
• U.S. Supreme Court 1989

Representive Cases

• Murtishaw v. Woodford, 255 F.3d 926 (9th Cir. 2001)
• Dew v. Appelberry, 23 Cal.3d 630, (1979)
• Virden v. Graphics One, 623 F.Supp. 1417 (C.D. Cal. 1986)
• Gray v. First Winthrop Corp., 989 F.2d 1564 (9th Cir. 1993)
• Granberry v. Islay Investme