Admitted
1974, California and U.S. District Court, Central District of California; 1976, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Law School
University of Southern California, J.D., 1974
Law School Graduation Year
1974
College
New York University, B.E., 1961; Stanford University, Ph.D., Engineering, 1966
Memberships
Los Angeles County (Member, Committee on Law and Technology, 1976-1978; Chairperson, Products Liability Sub-Committee, 1977-1978; Member, Fee Arbitration Panel, 1979—) and American (Member, Litigation and Torts and Insurance Sections) Bar Associations; State Bar of California (Member: Committee on Computers and Law, 1975-1976; Committee on Economics of Law Practice, 1976-1978); Association of Southern California Defense Counsel; Defense Research Institute.
Biographical
Recipient: Chance-Vaught Memorial Prize; Ford Foundation Fellowship for Plasma Physics. Speaker: Drafting of Claims Administration Agreements, Annual Convention of California Association of Independent Insurance Adjusters, 1984; Recent Developments in Bad Faith Law, Annual Convention of California Association of Independent Insurance Adjusters, October, 1986; Products Liability and the Engineer, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Design Conference, Boston, Mass, Sept., 1987. Author: Articles, The Insurer's Duty to Defend for a Claim for Intentional Acts, Insurance Adjuster, April, 1985; The Liability Insurer's Duty to Pay for the Insured's Independent Counsel, Insurance Adjuster, June, 1985; Direct Action by a Claimant Against the Liability Insurer and Adjuster, Insurance Adjuster, August, 1985; The Duty to Defend-Is the ‘Insured's Reasonable Expectation’ the Answer? Insurance Adjuster, December, 1985; The Care and Feeding of the Insured's Personal Attorney after Cumis, Insurance Adjuster, March, 1986. Judge Pro Tem, Municipal Court of Los Angeles Judicial District, 1979-1982. Arbitrator in Torts and Business Litigation, Los Angeles Superior Court, 1983—.