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Mr. Leuin is a senior litigation partner of the Firm. He has a broad background in civil disputes of all types, with particular concentrations in real estate, construction, insurance coverage, and alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”). While Mr. Leuin has successfully tried, arbitrated or otherwise resolved hundreds of disputes ranging from partnership disputes to wrongful termination to intellectual property to technology to tax claims, a substantial majority of his practice remains rooted in real estate and insurance coverage. His extensive practice in real estate litigation includes, for example, fraud claims, development agreement disputes, construction defect and delay claims, lease disputes, and subsidence, earth movement, and inverse condemnation issues. Mr. Leuin’s insurance coverage practice is limited to representation of insurance policyholders. He litigates and evaluates coverage under all types of policies, including property, general liability, directors and officers, errors and omissions, specialty policies and surety bonds. He also prosecutes claims for insurer bad faith. Given the prevalence of arbitration clauses in modern commercial real estate and construction contracts, Mr. Leuin has extensive familiarity with the law and practice governing private arbitration.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Mr. Leuin has handled disputes in the Superior Courts of some two dozen California counties, as well as the United States District Courts for each of the California districts, and various appellate courts. He is passionately committed to appropriate, economical and efficient resolution of all manner of civil disputes. He attempts to steer all matters toward the forum most appropriate to the dispute at hand, whether trial or other, and has made extensive use of mediation and arbitration.
Mr. Leuin has decided dozens of disputes as arbitrator appointed by the San Francisco Superior Court and the Bar Association of San Francisco, and is available to serve as private arbitrator. He is a member of the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association, including its Construction Litigation and Insurance Coverage Litigation committees. He is also a member of the American Bar Association’s Forum on the Construction Industry, and its Dispute Resolution Section.
EDUCATION
Mr. Leuin received his A.B. degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976 and his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1980. During law school, he was an extern at the Center for Law and Social Policy in Washington, D.C. | 