Biography
Hon. Zerne P. Haning III (Ret.) has heard cases involving virtually all areas of California law during his 19-year judicial career. As a former appellate Justice as well as a Superior Court Judge, Justice Haning has experience in mediation at the appellate as well as at the trial and pre-filing level. He has settled numerous cases after judgment and while the cases were pending on appeal. Justice Haning has authored a wide variety of appellate opinions that govern the application of California law today.
Complex Litigation
Construction
Employment
Government/Public Agency
Health Care
Insurance
Intellectual Property
Neutral Evaluation
Personal Injury and Wrongful Death
Professional Negligence
Real Estate/Real Property
Wildfire and Fire Cases
Representative Matters
- Breach of contract actions involving national corporations
- Shareholder derivative actions
- Corporate partnership dissolution, fraud, etc.
Complex Litigation
- Class actions, product liability, securities fraud, etc.
Construction
- Commercial buildings, large-scale development, and single structures
Employment
- Discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination cases
Government/Public Agency
- Public entity liability for tort, breach of contract, land use, and inverse condemnation
Health Care
- Health care matters involving provider-insurer, provider-provider, and reimbursement claims
Insurance
- Insurance coverage and subrogration disputes involving both public entities and private parties, including bad faith
Intellectual Property
- Trade secrets, unfair competition, and computer technology
Neutral Evaluation
- Neutral evaluator of appellate case involving nationally followed products liability matter against multinational conglomerate
Personal Injury and Wrongful Death
- Premises liability, workplace accidents, vehicular accidents, etc.
Professional Negligence
- Complex medical negligence actions in the seven figure damages category
- Hospital and health care facility negligence
- Malicious prosecution actions
- Legal malpractice actions involving damages exceeding seven figures
Real Estate/Real Property
- Commercial lease disputes
- Complex real estate development actions
- Eminent domain actions
- Premises effects, breach of lease, landslide, purchase and sale (disclosure issues, etc.), real estate broker liability, land use, and development
Wildfire and Fire Cases
- Discovery assignment in highly publicized urban fire incident
- Fire cases relating to power providers and natural incidents
Completed Virtual ADR training conducted by the JAMS Institute, the training arm of JAMS.
- Former Chair, Technology Committee, First Appellate District, oversaw hardware and software installation, networking and software training, 1987-1998
- Vice President, State Bar of California, 1980-1981
- Board of Governors, State Bar of California, 1978-1981
- Co-Chair, State Bar Committee on Law School Accreditation, 1979-1980
- President, San Mateo County Bar Association, 1977
- Co-author of California Practice Guide: Personal Injury, The Rutter Group, Thompson/West Publishing Co., Updated Annually
- Lecturer and Panel Moderator, California Education of the Bar (CEB), Center for Judicial Education and Research (CJER), California Judges Association (CJA), The Rutter Group; National Conference of Chief Judges
- Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal, First District, 1982-2000
- Judge, Superior Court, San Mateo County, 1981-1982
- Managing Partner, Haning, Fox & Guheen, practicing general civil litigation, San Mateo, CA., 1965-1981
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