Tyson Arbuthnot
Michelle L. Baker
Thomas D. Blanford
Ann M. Blessing
Robert J. Breakstone
Thomas H. Carlson
Robert C. Goodman
David Innis
Allan J. Joseph
Suhani Kamdar
J. Robert Maxwell
Joseph C. McGowan
Suzanne M. Mellard
Alexis Morris
Neil H. O'Donnell
Robert M. Osier
Dean D. Paik
Zachary M. Radford
Joseph W. Rogers
D. Kevin Shipp
Aaron P. Silberman
William B. Turner
Renée Wasserman
Margot Wenger
Paul M. Zieff


Paul M. Zieff
Shareholder

Areas of Practice

Mr. Zieff is co-chair of the firm's Complex Commercial Litigation Practice Group.

Professional Qualifications

For more than twenty-five years, Mr. Zieff has represented plaintiffs and defendants in a broad range of complex business disputes in trial and appellate courts, before administrative agencies, and in arbitrations and other Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) proceedings.

Mr. Zieff’s practice embraces individual lawsuits as well as class action proceedings in state and federal court. He has litigated contract, business tort and statutory claims arising in a wide variety of industries and commercial settings, including claims for unfair competition, false advertising, securities fraud, insurance bad faith, professional negligence, environmental contamination and real estate fraud. His clients include educational institutions, venture capital fund managers, advertising agencies, financial institutions, wineries, real estate developers and manufacturing firms, as well as individual officers, directors and principals.

Education

J.D., Harvard Law School, 1981
Magna Cum Laude

B.A., Brown University, 1976
With Honors

Bar Admissions
California - 1983




Practices
Complex Commercial Litigation


Recent Publications
Future Lost Profit Damages in Business Litigation (PDF)
Association of Business Trial Lawyers Report, March 2002
by Paul M. Zieff


Contact
Robert Dollar Building, 10th Floor
311 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: 415.956.2828
Fax: 415.956.6457
pzieff@rjo.com