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David B. Ezra | Principal
dezra@bergerkahn.com
Orange County
David Ezra has more than 20 years of experience successfully representing clients involved in insurance coverage, employment, business and class action litigation. He also serves as a mediator, having co-founded IDR Mediation Services in 2005.
David has been selected as one of Orange County's Top 5 Attorneys in the area of Insurance for two consecutive years by OC Metro magazine. In 2009 and 2010, David was selected as one of Orange County's Top 5 Attorneys in the Employment category. He also was named one of the Top 50 Super Lawyers in Orange County for 2010 and 2011.
David has significant appellate experience, obtaining many published (and unpublished) decisions in his clients' favor, including: Lomes v. Hartford Financial Services Group, 88 Cal.App.4th 127 (2001); Continental Casualty Co. v. Superior Court (Paragon), 92 Cal.App.4th 430 (2001); Padilla Construction Co., Inc. v. Transportation Ins. Co.,150 Cal.App.4th 984 (2007); and Molski v. Evergreen Dynasty Corp., 500 F.3d 1047 (9th Cir. 2007).
David writes and speaks extensively on legal topics. Some of David's publications include:
Asterisk: Home Runs, Steroids, and the Rush to Judgment (Triumph Books (2008) (Foreword by Mike Schmidt)).
How Presley Homes Has Changed the Duty to Defend, Los Angeles Lawyer, April 2003.
'Get Your Ashes Out of My Living Room!': Controlling Tobacco Smoke in Multi-Unit Residential Housing, 54 Rutgers Law Review 135-189 (2001).
Shedding New Light on the Cumis Doctrine, The Recorder, October, 1998.
Sticks and Stones Can Break My Bones But Tobacco Smoke Can Kill Me: Can We Protect Children From Parents that Smoke?, 13 St. Louis University Public Law Review 547-590 (1994).
Separate But Not Equal: Gender Specific Dress Codes and Employment Discrimination, 3 Western State University Journal of Law 119-144 (1994).
'Get Off Your Butts': The Employer's Right to Regulate Employee Smoking, 60 Tennessee Law Review 905-955 (1993).
David believes there's only one way to practice law -- 100% dedication to achieving the client's objectives.
Education
Certification in Conflict Management and Alternative Dispute Resolution, University of California, Irvine, 2005
J.D., University of Southern California School of Law, 1990
• Editor, Southern California Law Review
• Order of the Coif
B.A., California State University, Fullerton, with honors, 1987
Admitted to Practice
California
U.S. District Court, Northern, Central and Southern Districts of California
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Memberships
Orange County Bar Association
Distinctions
AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated - Martindale-Hubbell
Top 5 Orange County Attorneys in Insurance Law, OC Metro magazine, 2011
Top 5 Orange County Attorneys in Employment Law, OC Metro Magazine, 2009
Top 5 Orange County Attorneys in Insurance Law and Employment Law, OC Metro magazine, 2010
Top 50 Orange County Southern California Super Lawyers 2011
Top 50 Orange County Super Lawyers 2010
2011 Southern California Super Lawyer
2010 Southern California Super Lawyer
2009 Southern California Super Lawyer
2007 Southern California Super Lawyer
Press Releases
Expert Employment Law Attorneys` Year End Review on California Wage and Hour Cases
David Ezra and Erin Mindoro of Berger Kahn Provide Insight on Four Employment Law Decisions of 2011
IRVINE, CA--(Dec 26, 2011) - While reflecting on hour and wage "battles" of 2011, Berger Kahn principal David Ezra and associate Erin Mindoro have determined that there may be a changing trend in California employment law disputes in favor of employers.
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