Legal  LEGAL EXPERIENCE

2004-present Principal, Hamburg Law Corporation. Specializing in business and real estate matters, including dispute resolution, litigation, and transactional.

2001-2004 Executive Vice-President and General Counsel, Primecore Funding Group. Managed all legal affairs of publicly-held construction lender with $300 million portfolio and 1,400 shareholders, including litigation, bankruptcy matters, loan documentation, loan workouts, dispute resolution, securities compliance oversight, advice to Board of Directors.

1994- 2000 Partner, Freeland Cooper & Hamburg. Handled commercial litigation and dispute resolution involving real estate, loan workouts, employment, general business, title insurance.

1980-1993 Partner, Dinkelspiel Donovan & Reder. Twenty-seven-attorney business and litigation firm. Commercial litigation and dispute resolution.

1979-1980 Law Clerk, Law and Motion Department, San Francisco Superior Court. Clerk to the Hon. Ira A. Brown, Jr., Hon. Robert Dossee and other law and motion judges.

OTHER LEGAL EXPERIENCE AND AFFILIATIONS

Judge Pro Tem, Contra Costa Superior Court.
Mediator, United States District Court, Northern District of California.
Mediator and Settlement Mentor, Contra Costa Superior Court and San Francisco Bar Association.
Arbitrator, San Francisco Superior Court.
Panelist, ABA Regional Dispute Resolution Competition.
Judge, California High School Mock Trial Competition.
Current and Past Memberships: California Mortgage Association, National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, San Francisco Bar Association, State Bar Real Property and Litigation Sections
Admitted: California; Northern, Eastern, Central Districts of California; Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal; United States Supreme Court.

VOLUNTEER POSITIONS

President, Board of Directors, Jewish Family and Children’s Services of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
Board of Directors, Center for Youth Development Through Law

EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. J.D. 1979.
University of California, Los Angeles, B.A. (With Honors), Phi Beta Kappa, 1975.

ARTICLES

“Liquidated Damages Provisions in Real Estate Purchase Contracts,” California Real Property Journal, Spring 1998.
“Loose Lips: Computer Generated Memos, Messages and Voicemails Can Come Back to Haunt You,” California Law Business, November 1998.
“Defect Defense: Lenders That Act Within Traditional Roles Will Not Bear Burden of Faulty Construction” California Real Estate Journal, 1999.
“Relief from Indebtedness Tax on Foreclosures and Short Sales,” CWC Newsletter, 2008, http://www.cwcfinancial.com/newsletters/06-03-08.html