Robert Alex Roth

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Tarkington, O'Neill, Barrack & Chong is a leading Northern California litigation firm with offices in San Francisco and Santa Rosa. The firm is composed of litigation and trial specialists who are experienced in the defense of a wide variety of complex litigation including construction, property damage, insurance, premises liability, professional liability, commercial tort, real estate, property management, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful termination, catastrophic injury, environmental pollution, and pharmaceutical.

* TORT AND INSURANCE PRACTICE
Negligence, Product Liability, Professional Liability, Construction Defect, Environmental and Toxic Tort, Insurance Coverage, Mass Tort Litigation, Elder Abuse and Appellate Practice.

* LABOR, EMPLOYMENT AND CIVIL RIGHTS/DISCRIMINATION LITIGATION
Wrongful Termination, Sexual Harassment, Age, Race, Gender Discrimination, ADA and Civil Rights Discrimination.

* ENVIRONMENTAL LITIGATION AND PROBLEM AVOIDANCE
Insurance Coverage for Environmental Claims, CERCLA and other Federal and State Enforcement Proceedings, Defense and Prosecution of Claims by and against Adjacent Landlords, Environmental Indemnity, Construction and Mass Toxic Tort including Asbestos, PCB's, Solvents, Petroleum and Pesticides.

- Banking & Bankruptcy:
The Tarkington firm orients its commercial, banking and bankruptcy practice toward the enforcement of creditor's rights, both in bankruptcy court and courts of general jurisdiction.

- Business:
The Tarkington firm offers its clients a rich and varied business litigation background, in both state and federal courts. Firm attorneys have extensive litigation experience, ranging from hard-fought and long-protracted litigation prepared for ultimate trial, to the extraordinary procedures involved in emergency injunctive relief, writs and equitable remedies, as well as business dissolutions, insolvencies and receiverships. The firm also offers a record of successes in a variety of trials, including successful trial results in areas such as Antitrust, Civil RICO, Trade Defamation, Professional Liability, Unfair Trade Practice, Contract and Fraud.

- Tort & Insurance:
The firm of Tarkington, O'Neill, Barrack & Chong has been in the past two decades widely recognized for its work with insurers, insured and self-insured in the field of tort and insurance practice. The Tarkington firm has represented a variety of insurers, ranging from large and well-known personal lines carriers, through their local offices, to the largest of commercial and professional lines carriers, often operating out of home offices or regional and national claims centers. Additionally, the firm has represented a variety of specialty, surplus, excess and non-admitted carriers ranging from Tokyo to London. Its insurance coverage work has many facets: Coverage analysis and opinion; representation of insurers in declaratory relief, bad faith and coverage action; representation of insured in such litigation; defense of the underlying litigation implicated in a variety of complex coverage issues, both on an assigned or a "CUMIS" basis. The firm can as well point to an enviable track record of trial successes in diverse areas of tort liability extending from auto and premises liability to construction defect to professional and product liability.

- Labor:
The Tarkington firm was well prepared for the relatively recent explosion of litigation relating to conditions of employment, ranging from wrongful termination to sexual harassment litigation. Well before the current trends emerged, Tarkington lawyers enjoyed the unique advantage of years of this type of litigation, resulting from its Title VII work and analogous governmental employment litigation.

- Government Litigation:
The Tarkington firm has represented a variety of state and municipal governmental entities, ranging from county and city government to special assessment districts. As well, the Tarkington firm has had extensive experience representing federal government agencies, including not only traditionally organized agencies, but also quasi-governmental and independently budgeted agencies such as Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Resolution Trust Corporation and the National Credit Union Administration. Our representation of governmental agencies ranges from defense of governmental tort claims on behalf of municipalities and countries to more complex actions, including eminent domain, police misconduct and prison condition litigation.

- Real Estate:
The firm of Tarkington, O'Neill, Barrack & Chong has throughout its existence represented a number of California's leading property owners and managers. Additionally, in recent years, the firm has pursued varied and extensive litigation on behalf of financial institution owners of some the countries' largest REO portfolios. This work, which includes areas as diverse as peronal injuries premises liability, commercial lease collection, and shopping center free speech litigation, makes the firm uniquely suited to representation of property owners and managers. Additionally, the firm has represented real estate brokers, developers and title insurers in a diversity of significant litigation. Moreover, our facility with interrelated litigation areas-construction defect, environmental, bankruptcy, banking-allows us to fully serve our real estate clients.

Robert A Roth
Tarkington, O'Neill, Barrack & Chong
2711 Alcatraz Ave #3
Berkeley CA 94705
Tel: 510 704-0921
Fax: 510 740-3651
E-mail: rothappeal@yahoo.com