Practice Areas - Insurance Coverage
- Appellate Practice
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- Commercial Litigation
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| University | University of California at Los Angeles, B.A., Political Science, cum laude, 1977 |
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| Law School | Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, J.D., cum laude, 1980 |
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| Admitted | 1980, California; 1981, U.S. District Court, Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of California; 1982, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit; 1997, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas |
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| Memberships | Los Angeles County (Trial Lawyers Section) and American (Tort and Insurance Practice Section; Forum on Sports and Entertainment Industries) Bar Associations; Defense Research Institute. |
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| Born | La Jolla, California, May 26, 1955 |
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| Biography | Member, St. Thomas More Law Honor Society. Chief Ninth Circuit Editor, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, 1979-1980. Entertainment Law Columnist, 1988-1990 and Insurance Law Columnist, 1990—, Los Angeles Daily Journal and San Francisco Daily Journal. Member, Forum on Entertainment and Sports Industries, 1983—, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee, Torts and Insurance Practice Section, 1989— and Task Force on Complex Insurance Coverage Litigation, 1990-1993, American Bar Association. Contributing Editor, West's California Litigation Forms: Civil Procedure Before Trial (1998). Co-Author and Editor: Manual for Complex Insurance Coverage Litigation (Aspen, 2004); Officers and Directors: Liabilities and Protections (Matthew Bender 2003); The Year 2000 and Beyond: Liabilities and Insurance for Computer Code Problems (CCH 2000). Author: Casualty and Liability Insurance (Matthew Bender 2003); and more than 400 articles. Speaker: American Bar Association Conferences; "Mealey's Insurance Conference," American Conference Institute; Practicing Law Institute, UCLA, Entertainment Law Symposium Conference and RIMS. Chairman, Board of Directors, The Woody Herman Foundation, 1988-1991. Member, Board of Directors, Constitutional Rights Foundation, 2000. Honors: Listed by California Law Business as one of the Top 25 Litigators in California, by Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers 2003, 2004, 2005 as "The Market Leader for Policy Holder Representation in California," by Lawdragon 2005 as one of the nation's 500 "Leading Lawyers,"and by The American Lawyer as one of the Nation's Top 45 Lawyers Under the Age of 45. Member: National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences; Risk and Insurance Management Society. |
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| ISLN | 904569535 |
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Documents by this lawyer on Martindale.com | |
Insurance Coverage for Class ActionsKirk Pasich, March 28, 2011, previously published by Los Angeles Daily Journal on February 14, 2011 As class actions continue unbounded and as recent filings suggest an uptick in class actions regarding alleged errors and omissions by directors and officers, as well as those that are employment-related, Insurance Coverage Practice Leader Kirk Pasich discusses the importance of considering...
Insuring Against Political Risks Kirk Pasich,Sandra Smith Thayer, March 28, 2011, previously published by Los Angeles Daily Journal on February 18, 2011 Recent civil unrest in Egypt and the Middle East has caused companies doing business in foreign countries to consider political risk insurance, which can protect a company’s assets, investments, or contractual rights from attendant losses. Insurance Coverage Practice Leader Kirk Pasich and...
2010 Insurance: The Year in ReviewKirk Pasich, March 21, 2011, previously published by The Los Angeles Daily Journal on January 25, 2011 Sifting through the approximately 30 insurance-related decisions rendered by California Courts of Appeal in 2010, Insurance Coverage Practice Leader Kirk Pasich provides analyses of the five key cases that were decided last year. |
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