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PAUL F. DONSBACHPaul’s legal practice focuses on complex, multimillion-dollar litigation, including labor and employment disputes, professional liability, errors and omissions, directors and officers liability, business torts, personal injury, wrongful death and trade secrets litigation. He has extensive trial experience in both state and federal courts, as well as in complex arbitration proceedings, including numerous jury trials tried to verdict. Paul’s practice includes the defense of insureds and self-insured corporations in a wide range of cases involving executives and officers liability, professional liability, bodily injury, wrongful death, property damage, statutory liability, and business disputes. Paul's experience in labor and employment litigation includes complex cases involving allegations of employment discrimination, sexual harassment, employee disability, retaliation, whistleblowing, wage and hour violations, trade secrets, non-competition agreements and employment contracts. He is a first-chair trial attorney in employment cases and other complex litigation, and his successful jury trial practice includes a favorable jury verdict in a complex federal trial of an employment dispute involving nuclear scientists hired as part of the United States Department of Energy's nuclear non-proliferation program relating to the conversion of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) industries in the former Soviet Union. Paul's professional liability and directors and officers liability litigation experience includes disputes involving allegations of errors and omissions by attorneys, directors and officers, physicians, homeowners associations, insurance brokers, executives and other professionals. In a recent case involving the relocation of the Oakland Raiders NFL football team, Paul obtained a summary judgment for his client with respect to insurance coverage issues involving a $30 million verdict for negligent misrepresentation by the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum. Paul's experience in personal injury and wrongful death litigation includes cases involving high-exposure brain injury, multiple fatality automobile accidents, permanent disability, and other complex injury and death cases. He defends manufacturers and retailers in products liability litigation, including complex multi-party cases and class actions filed in the federal and state courts. Paul's trial practice also includes a number of significant victories in arbitration proceedings, including labor and employment matters, personal injury and wrongful death cases and complex business disputes. His representation of clients in trials and arbitrations includes major clients in retailing, transportation, health care, insurance, manufacturing and aviation industries. Paul has extensive experience in representing Fortune 500 and other large commercial clients, and his practice focuses on the unique and specific needs of each client's business, as well as responsive client service and careful attention to the client's goals and objectives. Earlier in his practice, Paul played a key role in several landmark litigation matters, including the United States Supreme Court's ruling on settlement class actions in Amchem Prods., Inc. v. Windsor, 521 U.S. 591 (1997), bankruptcy court jurisdiction involving asbestos-related claims in Celotex Corp. v. Edwards, 514 U.S. 300 (1995), and environmental damage from a catastrophic oil spill in In re Exxon Valdez, 1993 WL 735037 (D. Alaska 1993). Education
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