Guy Kornblum Biography
Guy Kornblum & Associates is a San Francisco-based law firm that specializes in jury and court trials, arbitrations, mediations and appeals. The firm's practice focuses on representing plaintiffs, claimants, policyholders and victims of tortious and contractual wrongs in insurance bad faith (life, health and disability, uninsured and underinsured motorist claims, property and casualty claims, directors and officers liability insurance, errors and omissions coverage, and employment practices liability coverage), medical and legal malpractice, personal injury, wrongful death, commercial and real estate litigation and actions involving punitive damages claims.
Its principal, Guy O. Kornblum, is a highly regarded and seasoned trial and appellate attorney with more than 40 years of experience. He has handled over 4,000 litigated matters to conclusion and has several million dollar plus cases to his credit, including one of the largest settlements for a “golden years” client in a personal injury case. While concentrating in the torts and insurance field, he has handled a wide variety of cases including complex insurance, personal injury, wrongful death, wrongful termination, real estate, medical and legal malpractice and commercial litigation. He has appeared as lead counsel in several landmark appellate court cases in California and before the Arizona Supreme Court.
Mr. Kornblum is certified in Civil Trial Advocacy by the prestigious National Board of Trial Advocacy; he sits on its Advisory Board. He is a Charter Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America Trial Lawyer Honorary Society. He is also a Lifetime Member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and Million Dollar Advocates Forum, for those attorneys who have achieved multi-million dollar awards, settlements or verdicts for their clients, and a Platinum Member of The Verdict Club. Recent honors include: 2005-2006 Edition of Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in American Law, as well as the 2006 Martindale-Hubbell Register of Preeminent Lawyers. He also has been named as a Northern California Super Lawyer for 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. Mr. Kornblum was selected by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce as one of its featured law firms in its 2004 Annual Report; and Guy Kornblum & Associates was the 2004 Law Firm of the Year, San Francisco AIDS Legal Referral Panel (pro-bono).
Mr. Kornblum is the co-author of three books: Negotiating and Settling Tort Cases, a two-volume treatise published by the AAJ Press and Thompson West Publishing Company; Litigating Insurance Claims: Coverage, Bad Faith and Business Disputes, published by Wiley & Sons; and the California Practice Guide: Bad Faith, published by The Rutter Group. He also is a contributing author to the California Continuing Education of the Bar’s “Alternative Dispute Resolution in California,” which was published in 2005. Mr. Kornblum has authored well over 125 published articles on trial practice, discovery, civil procedure and insurance law and related topics. He served as assistant dean and professor in the early 1970s at Hastings College of the Law, at which time he co-founded and administered the Hastings College of Advocacy. Mr. Kornblum is a well-known lecturer to bar associations and professional groups, having given over 400 presentations in 35 states and three foreign countries.
The firm, now in its 30th year, is listed as one of the nation’s prestigious law firms. Mr. Kornblum and his colleague Mukesh Advani, the firm’s Senior Counsel, are both recognized as “AV” (preeminent) attorneys by the Martindale Hubbell Law Directory rating service. Mr. Advani has appeared as lead counsel in dozens of appellate matters, including high profile cases in the California Supreme Court. Mr. Kornblum and Mr. Advani are admitted before all of the federal and state courts in California and the U.S. Supreme Court Bar. The firm also maintains a staff of attorneys and paralegals trained to provide close personal support for their clients.
While the firm has a strong track record in litigation, the emphasis is on a practical approach and problem solving in litigation, including cost-benefit analysis, as well as hard-nosed advocacy.
For further information, please contact Guy O. Kornblum at 415.440.7800, extension 226 or via email at gkornblum@kornblumlaw.com; or Mukesh Advani at extension 225 or madvani@kornblumlaw.com.
