Admitted
1985, California and U.S. District Court, Eastern, Northern and Central District of California
Law School
San Joaquin College of Law, J.D., 1985
Law School Graduation Year
1985
College
University of Southern California; Fresno State University, B.S., 1980
Memberships
Fresno County and American (Member, Torts and Insurance Practice Section and Property Insurance Law Committee and Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee) Bar Associations; The State Bar of California; Defense Research Institute; Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California; Property Insurance Claims Association of the Pacific; California Conference of Arson Investigators; Northern California Fraud Investigators Association.
Biographical
Corpus Juris Scholar, 1981-1983; Bailey National Moot Court; Student Association President, 1983-1984. Co-Author: The Coverage Trigger In Environmental Contamination Property Claims: Who Gets Shot For The Loss, ABA Property Insurance Law Committee, mid-year meeting, 1989; Bad Faith and Punitive Damages, Regional Editor, 1st Supplement, ABA, 1990; How Do You Plead So You Won't Get Burned, ABA Section of Tort and Insurance Practice, National Institute; Litigating The Civil Arson Case: Winning Without Getting Burned, 1993; Fighting Fraud: A Team Effort: A Discussion of several Topics Relevant to the Investigation and Litigation of Fraudulent Insurance Claims, Northern California Fraud Investigators Association, Fifth Annual Training Conference, 1994; ADR: Is It Worth It?, ABA Property Insurance Law Committee, mid-year meeting, 1997. Regional Author: Property Insurance Annotations--Fire and Extended Coverage, 3rd Edition, published ABA Tort and Insurance Practice Section, 1998; Economic Loss: When Does it Amount to Physical Damage, Property Loss Research Bureau, 2001 Claims Conference, 2001.