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Jack V. Valinoti
San Francisco, California
phone  415-433-4800
fax  415-433-4841
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Jack V. Valinoti is a skilled and sophisticated attorney who has successfully represented individuals and privately held companies in all phases of litigation from pre-suit investigation and correspondence through pleadings, discovery, dispositive motions, and court or private arbitration, mediation, settlement, trial, and appeal. Mr. Valinoti was born in Staten Island, New York and began his legal career in New York City, where he gained experience in products liability, complex commercial, and securities fraud litigation while working with two large Wall Street law firms. Mr. Valinoti also worked for a mid-sized New Jersey firm where he conducted execution, trial, bankruptcy, and appellate proceedings to enforce an $8.5 million judgment against John Z. DeLorean.

Mr. Valinoti is a graduate of Bucknell University and New York Law School where he was a member of the Law Review and the Moot Court Board. Mr. Valinoti received the Best Oralist Award for the 1990 New York Law School Moot Court Competition, and the American Jurisprudence Award – Legal Writing II.

Mr. Valinoti has strong client counseling, case management, and litigation strategy skills. He is adept at pleadings, all forms of discovery, and motion practice. He is an energetic, service oriented, self-starter with excellent analytical, interpersonal, problem solving, negotiation, and communication skills.

Areas of Practice:
Business Litigation
Contracts
Litigation and Appeals
Commercial Law
Real Property Law
Products Liability Law
Unfair Competition
Family Law
Toxic Torts / Asbestos Defense
Judgment Enforcement and Collection
Bar Admissions:
California 2001
New York 1992
New Jersey 1991
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth, Third, and Second Circuits
U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, and Southern Districts of California
U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
U.S. District Court of New Jersey
Education:
New York Law School, New York, New York, J.D, cum laude, 1991


Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, B.A. Economics, 1986


Professional Associations and Memberships:
San Francisco Bar Association


Marin County Bar Association


Reported Decisions:
Edwards v. Marin Park, 356 F.3d 1058 (9th Cir. 2004). Mr. Valinoti represented a mobile home resident in a Fair Housing Act retaliation claim and obtained reversal of the decision dismissing complaint as a sanction against plaintiff for choosing to appeal rather than amend her complaint.


Ferguson v. Arcata, 2005 WL 1869445 (N.D. Cal. August 5, 2005). Mr. Valinoti handled all aspects of the defense of an officer and director of a privately held lumber company against CERCLA claims. Mr. Valinoti prepared and argued a successful motion for summary judgment dismissing the executive from the action.


Continental Ins. Co. v. CLX Services, 2003 A.M.C. 2251, 2002 WL 32307824 (Alameda 2003). Mr. Valinoti successfully represented a cargo carrier and defeated a summary judgment motion brought by the insurer of a stolen container holding goods worth $300,000, and limited his client,s damages under COGSA to $500.


Dept. of Economic Development v. Arthur Andersen, 924 F. Supp. 449 (S.D.N.Y. 1996). Mr. Valinoti worked on a litigation team that successfully prosecuted the British Government’s $170 million securities fraud claim against Arthur Andersen for its auditing work for DeLorean Motor Company.


Zim Israel Navigation Co. v. 3-D Imports, 29 F.Supp.2d 186 (S.D.N.Y. 1998). Mr. Valinoti helped represent an owner of a container ship in a maritime insurance litigation involving General Average issues.



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