Professional Liability
White, Oliver & Amundson firm members are particularly experienced in professional malpractice representation. Firm members have defended legal, accountancy and medical malpractice actions, and utilize their experience and knowledge to provide cost effective management of professional liability actions. This experience extends not only to jury trial verdicts, but also to arbitrations, mediations and all venues of alternative dispute resolution. Firm members are active in advising professional clients on prelitigation claims to avoid costly litigation, often referred to as loss prevention. Mr. White has also been retained to render expert opinions and testimony regarding the standard of care as it pertains to legal malpractice matters.
Business and Commercial Litigation
Firm members have extensive experience in business litigation. White, Oliver & Amundson attorneys have successfully defended claims for breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, breach of contract, intentional and negligent interference with prospective economic advantage, among others. In addition, the Firm's practice includes matters of complex commercial litigation involving alleged violations of antitrust law, trademark and copyright infringement, and other areas of intellectual property. Moreover, Firm members have been retained by major insurers to render advice as to insurers' rights and responsibilities for associated areas of insurance coverage. White, Oliver & Amundson attorneys have also been actively involved in litigation relating to business entities through its representation of accounting, legal and real estate professionals.
Employment Litigation
As the law evolves, the law of wrongful termination, sexual harassment and other employment-related matters change as well. As a result of their work with corporations and business entities of all types and description, the Firm members have been retained to represent businesses in connection with the handling of cases pertaining to wrongful termination, sexual harassment, age, gender, race and other discrimination and related problems. The Firm also provides risk management consultations and seminars on employer/employee relations and administration of employment policies and procedures.
Insurance Law
White, Oliver & Amundson attorneys have trained in insurance defense litigation. As a result, the Firm has cultivated and developed other areas of business and non-insurance clients. However, the Firm has continuing relationships with insurance companies and the Firm members have frequently been employed to render coverage opinions related to many types of insurance, from automobile situations to professional errors and omissions coverage.
Additional areas of expertise in insurance matters encompass the tort of "bad faith" wherein insurer conduct is potentially actionable for failure to defend, settle or pay claims. Firm members are among the leaders in Southern California in the defense of all aspects of insurance "bad faith" situations. As a result of Firm members' experience in defending many of these cases, providing opinions of coverage and doing first-party bad faith work, White, Oliver & Amundson has a strong grasp of the duties and responsibilities of an insurer and can advise them accordingly with regard to the proper methods to avoid the payment of meritless claims and exposure to excess liability.
Personal Injury
The Firm manages and maintains a varied personal injury practice. White, Oliver & Amundson is equipped to deal with all aspects of personal injury litigation from the most minor injuries to complex severe injury cases or wrongful death. For instance, while Firm members have significant experience in the defense of automobile accidents and the multiplicity of problems that they cause, they also have a vast knowledge of the legal principles applicable to medical and psychological problems in complex and complicated personal injury litigation.
Intentional Torts
Firm members have successfully defended various department stores, food markets, general merchandising stores, theaters, entertainment establishments and other business entities and public assembly areas against intentional torts claims, such as false arrest, false imprisonment, assault and battery, malicious prosecution, libel and slander. Additionally, the Firm members' areas of expertise extend to more complex areas of alleged intentional liability. These areas include civil suits which arise from homicides, public and private nuisance, trespass, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage and contractual relations.
Premises Liability
As a result of representing a number of retail and commercial concerns, the Firm's attorneys have extensive experience in defending private owners and occupiers of property against claims of unsafe conditions on their premises. Firm attorneys have expansive experience in slip and fall, trip and fall, unsafe surface and defective condition type litigation.
Products Liability
White, Oliver & Amundson attorneys have extensive experience in all aspects of products liability litigation involving design, construction and manufacturing defects. Products defended have included, among other things, vehicles (including trucks, trailers, SUV's and ATC's) shop and gardening equipment, and blood products. The Firm is particularly adept at organizing these cases, preparing a meaningful program for their resolution, and selecting cost conscious and experienced experts. Firm members also consider all legal ramifications of design failure, accident reconstruction, expert analysis and their related matters.
Construction Litigation
Firm members have extensive experience in all aspects of residential real estate construction defect litigation on behalf of contractors, subcontractors, developers, and design professionals, as well as homeowners. Moreover, firm members provide counseling and litigation services to contractor clients on issues to support initial contract negotiations, and later when on-site issues arise to avoid or minimize potential claims before they occur, with further cost-effective representation through dispute resolution or litigation.
Real Estate Litigation
The activities of California real estate professionals are increasingly under scrutiny in the current legal climate. Firm members have represented real estate brokers, their firms, and sales associates. That experience has resulted in expansive knowledge and expertise in appraisal practice, economic analysis and other evaluation techniques.
Moreover, White, Oliver & Amundson firm members have provided representation for some of the largest developers in San Diego. The firm has represented these developers in cases arising out of almost every type of real estate development, including commercial, single and multi-family residential, condominiums, planned unit developments and master-planned communities.
Wrongful Death Actions
Firm members have been involved in numerous wrongful death cases, including those based on liability for negligence, products liability and intentional acts. White, Oliver & Amundson attorneys are knowledgeable of the changing evaluation techniques utilized by accountants and economists practicing in this area. The Firm is particularly result-oriented and utilizes alternative dispute resolution to assist in the successful resolution of wrongful death actions. As a result of firm members' experience, they are particularly capable of selecting and retaining competent and cost effective experts to assist in the preparation of the defense of these cases.
Appellate Practice
The Firm has extensive and varied appellate experience. Much of the appellate work is a result of the Firm members' trial practice. Additionally, Firm attorneys have briefed novel appellate issues. The Firm produces well-written, cogent, and cost-effective briefs. The appellate issues have ranged from constitutional law challenges, to various public policy statutes, to evidentiary challenges, and jury verdicts requiring analysis of lengthy trial testimony. Further, Firm members have performed appellate work for other law firms and clients on cases that they did not initially handle at trial.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
White, Oliver & Amundson recognizes the significant costs associated with litigation and the Firm's practice emphasizes cost effective resolution of disputes. As such, Firm members are greatly involved in implementing all methods of alternative dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation. Furthermore, White, Oliver & Amundson attorneys have acted as judges pro tem for the San Diego Superior Court and as professional mediators and arbitrators. Firm members have also served as arbitrators for the San Diego Superior Court Arbitration Program and have been elected to the American Arbitration Association Board in recognition of their expertise.
