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David M. Zeff
David
M. Zeff has been practicing law in San Francisco since graduating from Hastings College of the Law in 1974. Mr. Zeff graduated from the
University of California, Berkeley, in 1971, with an AB degree in history, with emphasis on Chinese history. He then
attended Hastings, and while there served as the teaching assistant for Guy Kornblum and Joseph Rodgers in their pioneering
Trial Evidence Seminar. While at Hastings, Mr. Zeff also served as a Graduate Student Assistant at the State Bar of
California, on both disciplinary and legislative matters, and then at the California State Attorney General’s Office
on large antitrust cases.
Upon graduation from Hastings, Mr. Zeff served as Court Administrator and Assistant Special Master
in the Antibiotics Antitrust Litigation for the Hon. Miles Lord in the U.S. District Court in Minnesota. Mr. Zeff was
thereafter employed in a private antitrust practice and as in house counsel at Safeway Stores, Inc., in the fields of antitrust
and trade regulation. Mr. Zeff started his current law practice in 1985, continuing to work in the fields of complex
civil litigation including litigation involving unfair competition, commercial disputes and collections, and litigation of intellectual
property, real property and personal injury matters.
Mr. Zeff served for 8 years as the Chair of the Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF) Committee on Arbitration
of Fee Disputes and he has held other positions on Committees of the State Bar of California, BASF and the Marin County Bar.
He was given the BASF Award of Merit in 1986. Mr. Zeff has been appointed by the San Francisco Superior Court and
BASF to arbitrate high profile attorney-fee disputes and has testified as an expert witness in this field.
Mr. Zeff lives with his family in Marin County. He enjoys running, biking, gardening, sailing, abalone diving
and other outdoor activities, support of environmental protection and preservation, and the Lair of the Bear (7th week) summer
camp every year. He and his wife participate in and contribute to MALT, the Marin Agricultural Land Trust, which preserves
open space, wildlife habitat and the agricultural industry in Marin County, and are members of the Inverness Yacht Club. |
