Areas of Practice

• Business and Commercial Law
• Complex Litigation
• Securities Litigation
• Shareholder and Derivative Actions
• Trade Secrets Litigation

Litigation Percentage

• 90% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Bar Admissions

• California, 1974
• Hawaii, 1989
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1986
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1989

Education

• University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, California, 1974
  J.D.
  Honors: With Honors
  
  
• Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1969
  B.A.
  Honors: With Honors
  
  
• University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1969
  
  

Published Works

• "Civil RICO Against Fraudulent Enterprises", Civil RICO Practice: Causes of Action, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1991

Representative Cases

• Dew v. Appleberry, 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 Investments, 9 Ca. 4th 738 (1995)

Honors and Awards

• Master, San Francisco Lawyers Club Inns of Court, 1998

Professional Associations and Memberships

• State Bar of California
  Member, Litigation Committee
  
  

Birth Information

• 1947, Haverford, Pennsylvania