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Mr. Shartsis is one of the founding partners of the Firm. He specializes in complex litigation, including general business disputes, securities, financial institutions, intellectual property, antitrust and construction litigation. He has tried cases in state and federal courts, before judges and juries, and in arbitration. He has appeared in both federal and state appellate courts, including the California Supreme Court. He has also represented major law firms, federal and state court judges, California Constitutional Officers (including Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger), and the States of California and Hawaii.
Mr. Shartsis is the founding President of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers of Northern California, an organization of 1,600 lawyers specializing in business litigation and trials. Mr. Shartsis has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since 1991. The Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal identified Mr. Shartsis in its special American Bar Association Convention Edition as one of the top 14 litigators in California. He was again named as one of the top 100 Northern California Super Lawyers in 2006. In 2004 he received the Distinguished Jurisprudence Award from the Anti-Defamation League.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Mr. Shartsis has lectured widely on legal matters, having appeared on programs sponsored by PLI, CEB, The Rutter Group, CLE International, the California Judges Association, the Special Practice Institute of the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association, the American Bar Association Annual Meeting, the Association of Business Trial Lawyers and the Construction Superconference. Mr. Shartsis is the featured speaker in the Rutter Group’s bi-annual Northern California program on trial preparation and tactics. Mr. Shartsis has performed trial demonstrations, lectured on presenting and deposing expert witnesses, presented a program to judges on cutting edge evidence, and lectured on developments in alternative dispute resolution. Mr. Shartsis has presented numerous programs on the use of computerized trial graphics for simplifying jury presentations. Mr. Shartsis pioneered in training state and federal judges in modern settlement techniques. He has also published on a number of legal and professional matters.
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Mr. Shartsis served as an elected director and president of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART). He also served on the Executive Committee of the Mayor’s Task Force which helped restructure the San Francisco Municipal Railway public transit system.
Mr. Shartsis has been a founding member of a number of public organizations, including California Lawyers For The Arts, The Henry’s Fork Foundation, and The Center Stage Ticket Foundation. He has also served on the boards of the International House at U.C. Berkeley and the U.C. Berkeley Alumni Association, and is presently on the board of the Boalt Hall Alumni Association.
EDUCATION
Mr. Shartsis received an A.B. degree (with honors) from the University of California at Berkeley in 1967 (Valedictorian), pursued graduate studies at Oxford University in 1968 and graduated from the Boalt Hall School of Law in 1971
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