PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND
ACTIVITIES
Vice Chair, ABA Torts, Trials and Insurance
Practice Section, Professionals, Officers & Directors
Liability Committee (2001-02)
Member, Communications Committee, Professional
Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) (2004)
Co-Chair, ABA Litigation Section, In-House
Counsel Subcommittee; Member: International Association of Defense
Counsel
Defense Research Institute; American Bar
Association (Sections on Litigation and Torts, Trials, and
Insurance Practice)
Professional Liability Underwriting Society;
State Bar of California
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, HASTINGS COLLEGE OF
LAW, J.D. cum laude (1983); Assistant Managing Editor,
Hastings Law Journal, 1982-83.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, B.A. with
distinction, Economics, 1978
BAR ADMISSIONS
State Bar of California, December 1983
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
Author, Resolving Disputes Between Insurer
and Insured, ALI-ABA’s Practice Checklist on Insurance
(American Law Institute, American Bar Association, 2002);
reprinted from The Practical Litigator, Vol. 11, No. 3
(ALI-ABA, May 2000)
Co-Author, Chapter 14,
Attorney Liability Insurance, Illinois Institute for
Continuing Legal Education Handbook for Attorneys (2003)
Presenter,The Use of the
Hammer Clause from the Insurer’s Perspective, IADC Mid-Year
Meeting (February 2006)
Co-Presenter, Can an
Insurer Dispose of Covered Claims and Leave the Defense of
Uncovered Claims to the Insured Without Incurring Bad Faith
Liability?, IADC Mid-Year Meeting (February 2006)
Panelist, Managing
Risk in Today’s Law Firm: An
Impossible Dream?, PLUS
International Conference, Boston, MA (November 2005)
Panelist,
Trends
in Attorney Malpractice Claims (2000-2003), ABA Standing
Committee on Lawyers Professional Liability, Boston, MA (April
2005)
Panelist, The
Scope & Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley on Attorneys and CPAs, Defense
Research Institute, Washington, DC (October 2003)
Panelist, The
State of the Insurance Market for Attorneys and Law Firms, New
Jersey State Bar Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (November
2002)
Panelist, Update on Lawyers
E&O Policy Insurance Coverage Issues, ABA Torts &
Insurance Practice Section - Professionals,
Officers & Directors Liability Committee, Chicago, CA
(November 2002)
Panelist, Use
of Mediation in Professional Liability Actions, International
Academy of Mediators Annual Meeting, Ft. Myers, FL (November 2002)
Panelist, The
Ethical Implications of the Unbundling of Legal Services, PLUS
Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL (November 2001)
Panelist, Pretrial Strategy
In Insurance Coverage Litigation, ABA Annual Meeting, Atlanta,
GA (1998)
PERSONAL
