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Mark V. Berry
Los Angeles, California
Mark Berry is a highly sought after trial lawyer focusing his practice on product liability defense, primarily for motor vehicle and component manufacturers, including Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Isuzu Motors Limited, Ford Motor Company, General Motors LLC and Kia Motors Corp.
Since joining Bowman and Brooke, he has had over 30 jury trials, many of them involving rollover crashes and catastrophic injuries. He has tried motor vehicle product liability cases in California, Idaho, Alaska, Wisconsin, Washington, New York and Texas. He directs a national discovery counsel program for one motor vehicle manufacturer, and is national coordinating counsel for rollover cases for another. He has extensive experience defending complex matters, with particular experience in cases involving rollover stability and crashworthiness. Mark was co-counsel in Toledo v. Isuzu Motors, listed as one of California's Top 10 Defense Verdicts of 2002 and was on the trial team for the Zavala v. Takata unfair competition class action, tried to verdict in Los Angeles Superior Court in 2009.
In 1982, prior to joining Bowman and Brooke, Mark joined Bridgestone Tire Company of America, Inc. as General Counsel, where he was responsible for the company's legal affairs on a national basis. In 1987 he joined Honda North America, Inc. as Associate General Counsel, responsible for the supervision of all Honda product liability litigation in the United States. He opened Bowman and Brooke's Southern California office in 1991, as their resident managing partner. He was elected a Firm Managing Partner in 2002 and Vice Chairman in 2008.
He is a sustaining member of the prestigious Product Liability Advisory Council (PLAC).
- Automotive
- Aviation Litigation
- Business, Commercial and Financial Litigation
- Dealer and Franchise Litigation
- Discovery and Document Management Litigation
- Motor Vehicle Warranty
- Motorcycles, ATVs and Other Wheeled Vehicles
- Product Liability
- Trucking and Bus Company Litigation
- Texas, 2004
- California, 1976
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1980
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1980
- U.S. District Court Central District of California, 1977
- U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 1980
- Stanford Law School, Stanford, California,
1976
J.D.
- University of California, Santa Barbara, California,
1973
B.A. Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
- The New CACI Jury Instructions - A View from the Trenches, Co-Authored with Jenny A. Covington, Verdict Magazine, 3rd Quarter, 2005
- Admissibility of Testing Evidence to Demonstrate Scientific Principles, Co-Authored with Jill Goldsmith, BNA Product Safety and Liability Reporter, December 16, 1994
- Beck-Ruiz v. Kia Motors America, Inc., SCBV-219965
(Superior Court for the State of California, County of Sonoma 2003)
- Elpidia Toledo v. Isuzu, BC 221457
(Los Angeles Superior Court, Central District, Dept 39 2002)
- Isuzu Motors Limited v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc., 12 F.Supp.2d 1035
(U.S.D.C., Central District of California (L.A.) 1998)
- General Motors v. Farnsworth, 965 P.2d 1209
(Alaska 1998)
- Maneely v. General Motors Corporation, 108 F.3d 1176
(9th Cir. 1997)
- Bigbee v. Pacific Telephone, 34 Cal.3d 49, 665 P.2d 947, 192 Cal.Rptr. 857
(Cal. 1983)
- Bruno v. Superior Court, 127 Cal.App.3d 120, 179 Cal. Rptr. 342
(Cal.App. 4 Dist. 1981)
- Toledo v. Isuzu, 32096155
( 2002)
- Ford Motor Company
- General Motors Corporation
- Isuzu Motors Limited
- Nissan North America
- Kia Motors America, Inc.
- Choice of Law, Product Liability Advisory Counsel,
October 26, 2005
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October 28, 2005
- Defendant's Closing Statement, American Bar Association - Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS),
March 18, 2004
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March 19, 2004
- The Rise of Junk Peer Review and What to do About It, ABA Emerging Issues in Motor Vehicle Product Liability Litigation, Phoenix, Arizona,
March 20, 2003
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March 21, 2003
- Experience from ATV Litigation (Or, Defending Your Product When Your Company - and the Industry - Abandons It, Texas General Counsel Forum, Dallas, TX,
November 16, 2001
- Technology on Trial Part I: Bells & Whistles in the Courtroom: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, ABA Section of Litigation Annual Meeting, Phoenix,
May 9, 2001
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May 12, 2001
- Numerous presentations to clients and within firm on technical and legal issues relating to product liability defense throughout his career
- Named in the Legal 500 United States,
2008
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2009
- Selected by Super Lawyers Magazine as a SuperLawyer(R) in 2004, 2006-2010
- American Bar Association
- Product Liability Advisory Council
- Sustaining Member
- State Bar of California
- Honda North America, Inc., Associate General Counsel
- Bridgestone Tire Company of America, Inc., General Counsel
- 1951, Oakland, California
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