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Admitted: 1967, California
Law School: Stanford University, LL.B.
Member: State Bar of California; American Bar Association (Member: Toxic and Environmental Tort Litigation Committee, Natural Resources Section; Toxic and Hazardous Substances and Environmental Law Committee, Tort and Insurance Practice Section); Defense Research Institute.
Biography: Member, Stanford Law Review, 1966-1967. Co-Author: "Effective Introduction of Evidence," California CEB, 1990 and annual updates through 2005. Author: "Tort Damages for Personal Injuries Not Yet Suffered," Natural Resources and Environment, Volume 3, Number 2, Spring, 1988, American Bar Association; "Management of Mass Tort Litigation," San Francisco Barrister Substantive Law Journal, June 1985. City Councilman, 1977-1982 and Mayor, 1980-1981, City of Walnut Creek, California. Member, Stanford Law School Environmental and Natural Resources Law Advisory Council, 1992.
Bill Armstrong is a trial lawyer specializing in complex scientific matters, real estate and land use law. He has experience with computer communication, technology issues, issues of medical and chemical causation, and material science. He has tried over 50 product liability, toxic tort and commercial cases over the past 40 years in federal and state courts in California. Those cases have involved issues of antitrust law, asbestos state-of-the-art, contract law, various environmental laws, lenders' liability law, maritime law, partnership law, product liability law, real estate law, securities law, and tort law. In the course of those trials, he has worked with, examined or cross examined experts in the fields of aircraft manufacturing, almond production, automobile design, cardiology, chemistry, clinical ecology, economics, epidemiology, fine arts printing, fruit handling, hematology, immunology, industrial hygiene, internal medicine, neurology, neuropsychology, obstetrics & gynecology, oncology, pediatrics, pharmaceutical research, psychiatry, pulmonology, radiology, risk assessment, rubber products manufacture, Savings & Loan regulation, statistics, toxicology, and viticulture.
Mr. Armstrong has also managed mass tort litigation, including the representation of an asbestos manufacturer in San Francisco Bay Area litigation involving several thousand personal injury and wrongful death cases (late 1970s through 1985) and of one of the defendants in the personal injury litigation in Riverside County, California, arising out of the claimed exposures to toxic materials from the Stringfellow Hazardous Waste site, involving over 5,000 plaintiffs. Mr. Armstrong co-chaired the Defendants' Coordinating Committee in that litigation and participated as trial counsel for six months of trial, until the matter settled. He has also assisted with the defense of the Lockheed personal injury litigation in Los Angeles County, involving approximately 600 claims.
Direct contact: bill.armstrong@armstrongetal.com
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