Philip L. Pillsbury Jr.
Business, Bad Faith Insurance, Insurance, Bad Faith Insurance, General Practice, Dispute Resolution
Experience:
49 years
Philip L. Pillsbury Jr. | Attorney
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About Philip
Philip L. Pillsbury, Jr. is a founding partner of Pillsbury & Levinson LLP and has specialized in the representation of policyholders in insurance bad faith and insurance coverage matters for more than 30 years.
Mr. Pillsbury is a frequent lecturer on insurance issues to attorney and non-attorney groups. In 1997, Mr. Pillsbury, as lead trial counsel in Vann v. The Travelers, obtained a $26.5 million verdict, including $25 million in punitive damages. This verdict was then one of the largest punitive damage awards in the country to be affirmed on appeal.
Mr. Pillsbury is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), the American Association for Justice, the Bar Association of California, Consumer Attorneys of California, and the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association.
Mr. Pillsbury has served as Chairman and Director on numerous non-profit boards including, St. Luke's Hospital, St. Luke's Hospital Foundation, Hearst Castle Preservation Foundation, Episcopal Charities, The Brotherton Fund, The Betts Fund, The Yosemite Fund, The Thacher School, and the Board of Visitors of Lewis & Clark Law School.
Mr. Pillsbury is a graduate of Middlebury College (A.B. 1973) and Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College (cum laude 1976), where he was an editor of the Law Review (Environmental Law) and was honored by induction into the Cornelius Honor Society (1976).
Mr. Pillsbury has published articles and papers, and made professional presentations, as follows:
"Electronic Errors and Omissions": March Technology Group Summit (May 2000) Palm Beach, Florida;
Technology Industry Risk Forum Issues in Technology Errors and Omissions Claims (January 2007);
Technology Industry Risk Forum Dialogue With Industry: Making the Technology E&O Claim (February 2008)
California Liability Insurance Litigation Practice (co-author);
Continuing Education of the Bar (1990); a contributing author, negotiation and settlements, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company (1992);
Civil Litigation Practice: Annual Updates (CEB 1996-1998);
Co-author Continuing Education of the Bar Series (1985) depositions of expert witnesses handling trial objections; Marine Insurance II: From generalities to specifics analysis of extra contractual exposure in specific claims situations
Pacific Admiralty Seminar (1990) contributor, California Tort Damages, Continuing Education of the Bar (1988); handling trial objections, Continuing Education of the Bar (1988), Compelling, Opposing and Enforcing Discovery in State Court, CEB (1985), Instructor: Mental and Emotional Damages, CEB (1982)
Admission
Hawaii
2016
California
1976
Education
Middlebury Coll; Middlebury VT
Bachelor
Pillsbury & Coleman Llp Highlights
Insurance, Landlord-Tenant, Business, Lawsuit & Dispute
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