Position: Member

TEL: 619-236-1551

FAX: 619-696-1410

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Website: www.higgslaw.com

Admitted: 1970, California

Law School: University of Southern California, J.D., 1969.

College: California State University at Los Angeles, B.A., 1966.

Birth Date and Place: Los Angeles, California, October 1, 1944.

Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Real Estate Litigation; and Environmental Litigation.

Additional Information: State Bar of California; American Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Litigation; Local Government; Natural Resources; Real Property, Probate and Trust Law). Author: "Captkidd_goldenfleece.com: Combating Cyberpiracy of Domain Names Through the ICANN Administrative Procedure," Association of Business Trial Lawyer Report, May 2000; "Evidentiary Privileges and Their Impact on Environmental Self Audits," Environmental Corporate Counsel Report, April 1998; " Environmental Self Audits Liabilities and Potential Solutions," Environmental Corporate Counsel, December 1997; "Overview of the Rights, Remedies and Obligations of Owners of Underground Storage Tanks," Environmental Corporate Counsel Report, July 1998; "Industry Beware: Strom Water & Pollution and Citizens' Suits May be Imminent," Environmental Corporate Counsel, June 1998; "Recent Developments in Contract Arbitration: An Overview, Pitfalls for the Practitioner and Avoiding Malpractice," Association of Business Trial Lawyers Report, February, 1998 and 1996; "Land Movement and Flood Litigation," California Continuing Education of the Bar, 1982, 1984 and 1988; "Avoiding New and Old Procedural Pitfalls in Seeking Judicial Relief from Administrative Land Use Decisions," California Real Property Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2, June, 1989; "Land Use Planning by Initiative," Los Angeles Lawyer, Vol. 9, No. 10, January 1987. Author and Lecturer: "Real Property Litigation," CEB, May 1998; "Contract Arbitration: Recent Developments," San Diego Law Library Foundation, December 1995; "Purchasing & Selling Real Property: What are the Environmental Risks?" National Business Institute, 1993; "Land Use: Rights of the Regulated," Symposium sponsored by the Pacific Legal Foundation; "The New Wave: The California Coastal Act of 1976 and Its Ramifications," Los Angeles Bar Association Real Property Section, 1977. Member, Board of Governors, Association of Business Trial Lawyers, 1998—. Co-Editor, Association of Business Trial Lawyer Report. Member, Executive Committee and Treasurer of State Bar Litigation Section, 1999— State Bar Real Property Section, Member, Executive Committee, State Bar of California. Involved in Paulson v. City of San Diego, 9th Circuit, 2001.

Firm Members: Paul Pfingst

Firm Members: Christina Denning