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Hon. Zerne P. Haning III (Ret.)

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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.

Representative Matters

Business Commercial

  • 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 Law

  • Discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination cases

Governmental & 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

  • 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 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

Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities

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

Background and Education

  • 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

Virtual & In-Person Locations

Home Office

  • Walnut Creek, CA

Available to Travel To

  • San Francisco, CA

Virtual hearings available nationwide

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