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Claiborne, Zela G. was born in Duluth, Minnesota, United States.
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Zela G. Claiborne
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Beloit College (Bachelor of Arts, 1964). University of Texas at Austin (Master of Arts, 1968). University of California at Berkeley (Juris Doctor, 1982).
Career
Worked at Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon Limited Liability Partnership (San Francisco, California) specializing in General Civil, Trial and Appellate and General Business Practice. Admitted to the bar, 1982, California. Author: "Creating Arbitration Procedures for Complex Construction Disputes," ABTL Report, Fall, 1991.
"Mediating Construction Disputes," ABTL Report, Summer 1993.
"Anti-Indemnity Statutes," The Construction Lawyer, April, 1992. Faculty Member, College of Trial Advocacy, Hastings College of the Law, University of California.
Arbitrator, American Arbitration Association. Member of LCCP Panel.
Legal Advisory Committee, Associated General Contractors of California.
Speaker, Construction Industry Institute (1996): "Partnership Beyond the Basics." Member: American Bar Association (Member, Governing Committee, 1996-1999, Forum on the Construction Industry). Association of Business Trial Lawyers of Northern California (Editorial Board). Queen"s Bench; California Women Lawyers.
Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon Limited Liability Partnership was founded in 1918 by San Francisco attorney Roy Bronson.
He was later joined by his brother, Editor Bronson, Senior, and Harold McKinnon. They built their law firm on a simple unbending principle: to provide the finest of legal services at a reasonable and appropriate cost to their clients.
Over the past 75 years, the firm has grown into one of the largest in California, with a statewide, national and international practice and offices in San Francisco and Los Los Angeles We provide litigation expertise in complex commercial matters, intellectual property, product liability, insurance, environmental and toxic torts, labor law, securities and real estate.
We organize and counsel businesses, negotiate and close sophisticated real estate matters, provide tax advice, as well as advise and document federal and state securities law transactions.
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Member: American Bar Association.
