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Civil assignments all thirteen years. Eleven and a half in downtown
Central Civil, one and a half in Norwalk. Seven years in law and
motion, writs and receivers, and as “judge for all purposes” in complex
cases; six years in civil trial departments, including five in fast
track. Supervising Judge, Law Departments, 1990. Founder and co-chair
of committee that drafted the Manual on Multi-Party Construction Defect
Litigation. Consultant to BAJI committee 1986.
Participated in decision of several thousand appeals and writ petitions.
Authored forty-six published opinions, joined in approx. one hundred
more. (See www.adrservices.org/neutrals_zebrowski.htm for listing).
Tens of thousands of cases handled in pre-trial, settlement, trial and
appeal. Although most judges spend the bulk of their careers in
criminal, Justice Zebrowski’s trial court assignments were always in
civil. His civil trial and settlement experience consequently covers a
comprehensive spectrum of civil and business cases, including banking,
commercial, construction and construction defects, contracts,
employment, entertainment, environmental, finance and securities,
insurance coverage and bad faith, high tech, intellectual property, land
use, malpractice, personal injury and product liability, real estate,
toxic torts, unfair competition and business torts, etc. Many were
large complex cases involving extensive discovery, case management and
motion practice.
Private practice with McCutchen, Black, Verleger & Shea (predecessor to
LA office of Baker & Hostetler), focused on admiralty, oil & gas, high
tech, retail operations and real estate; bulk of practice in Federal
court. Private practice with Schwartz, Alschuler & Grossman
(predecessor to Alschuler, Grossman, Stein & Kahan), focused on
construction defect and banking litigation. Assistant general counsel
and assistant secretary for USA Petroleum Corporation, covering full
spectrum of legal issues arising in corporate operations. Legislative
analyst, U.S. Department of the Interior, focusing on natural resource
issues.
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D. 1975, served as an editor of the
law journal. University of Pennsylvania, B.A. with honors 1970,
interdisciplinary course focused on economics and business in Wharton
School.
Contributing Editor to Weil & Brown, Civil Procedure Before Trial
(Rutter); author of regular column “Discovery by Bits and Bytes” in
Cyber Esq. magazine (Daily Journal); reporter for State Bar Lis Pendens
Task Force which re-wrote the lis pendens statute (reporter’s notes now
appear in annotated codes as code commentary); co-author of California
Pre-Judgment Money Remedies (West); past member Board of Governors,
ABTL; past member Executive Committee, LACBA Litigation Section; member
Executive Committee LACBA Intellectual Property and Entertainment
Section; Adjunct Professor, Loyola Law School; numerous articles on
civil procedure and related subjects: (see
www.adrservices.org/neutrals_zebrowski.htm for listing).
Please see expanded resume at www.adrservices.org/neutrals_zebrowski.htm .
Further background information is available from WestLaw and Lexis by
running a search for “zebrowski” in the case law, periodical or news
libraries, and from www.latimes.com by running a search for “zebrowski”
in the “archives” at “all sections” and “all years.”
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