Practicing in diverse areas of the law for over 30 years. Experience includes:• Directly lead a large team of senior attorneys and hundreds of tort, construction defect, and subrogation cases across California at any one time, in addition to indirect management of support staff. Activities involve a strong focus on identifying risk transfer opportunities, analyzing metrics, allocation of case assignments, and refining operational efficiencies in order to continuously improve results.• Assist team members with their professional development, engagement, and continuous improvement.• Assessment of legal technology tools for potential enterprise-wide utilization.• Development of relationships between business partners in order to streamline processes. • National coordinating coverage counsel for insurers regarding toxic tort litigation for more than a decade; responsible for authoring coverage opinions relating to thousands of welding plaintiffs, coordinating reports and activities between domestic and international claims professionals, developing an insurer strategy for addressing lawsuits, monitoring the litigation and communicating with general counsel and risk managers for insureds• Defense of bodily injury claims arising out of alleged toxic and environmental exposures, including cosmetics, chemicals, mold, and pollutants• Defense of product liability and premises claims• Defense of project managers, architects, engineers and associated design professionals in construction defect and construction-related litigation• Authored coverage opinions and participating in related coverage litigation in multiple states concerning nationwide toxic and environmental exposures, in addition to commercial auto, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, construction defect, general casualty, advertising injury, and railroad accident claims• Defense of employment discrimination claims• Business litigation relating to commercial and retail industries• Coordinate clients’ compliance with state insurance regulations relating to communications with insureds and claimants• First chair trial, mediation and arbitration• Trained attorneys and insurer personnel on various legal topics and procedures, coordinated with business leaders, executives and other senior personnel associated with domestic and international insurers, as well as coordinated with risk managers and general counsel of clients who have large self-insured exposures.