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Resume
Personal:
- Born 3-20-48 San Francisco; divorced; two children.
Education:
- 1971 BA Political Science, UC Berkeley
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1971 Ph.D. program Political Science, UC Berkeley
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1975 JD Hastings College of Law, San Francisco
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Thurston Society - top 5% first year class
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Articles Editor, Hastings Law Journal
Employment :
- 1974-78 Summer Clerk & Associate, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro,
San Francisco
- 1978-80 Associate, Bronson, Bronson & Mckinnon, San Francisco
- 1980-84 Associate & Partner, Owen, Melbye & Rohlff, Redwood
City
- 1984-85 Law Office of Dane J. Durham, San Rafael
- 1985-88 Associate, Freitas, McCarthy, Bettini et al., San Rafael
- 1988-89 Associate, Kornblum & McBride, San Francisco
- 1989-99 Of Counsel & Partner, Walker & Durham, San Francisco
- 1999-2005 Law Office of Dane J. Durham, Missoula, MT
- 2005-present Law Office of Dane J. Durham, Sebastopol, CA
Experience:
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more than 30 civil jury trials primarily in complex
products (auto, forklift, welding, and breast implant), medical malpractice,
legal malpractice, insurance bad faith and public entity liability
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more than 35 civil appeals in same areas
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arbitrator in more than 70 cases for San Francisco
and Marin County courts
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seven figure settlements in breast implant, HMO bad
faith, competitive swimming, forklift, insurance bad faith (pollution
coverage), dangerous road and construction cases.
Memberships:
- Consumer Attorneys of California
- San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association
- Sonoma County Bar Associatio
Interests:
- environmental history of Trinity River
- toxic torts
- steelhead & salmon conservation
- skiing/snowshoeing
- river & wildlife conservation
- whitewater canoeing
- hiking
- flyfishing
- rock climbing
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