San Francisco Address
Duane Morris LLP
One Market, Spear Tower, Suite 2000
San Francisco, CA 94105-1104
Phone: 415.957.3179
Fax: 415.957.3001

Dominica C. Anderson is the managing partner of Duane Morris' Las Vegas office. Ms. Anderson practices in the areas of insurance and business litigation with an emphasis on complex litigation.

Her insurance practice has included coverage disputes concerning construction defects, and claims for a variety of toxic torts and health hazards, including asbestos, chemical and petrochemical exposures, electromagnetic fields, agricultural products, and drugs and medical devices. She has represented clients as trial and appellate counsel in several significant matters.

Ms. Anderson also has experience in a variety of complex general business litigation, including contract disputes, e-commerce and intellectual property issues, domain name disputes, trademark and copyright issues, and unfair competition issues. She also has litigated construction, anti-trust, negligence, strict liability and product liability cases.

A member of the American Bar Association, the Clark County Bar Association, the Bar Association of San Francisco, the American Trial Lawyers Association, National Association of Women Lawyers, California Women Lawyers and Queen's Bench, Ms. Anderson is a 1986 cum laude graduate of the University of San Francisco Law School and a graduate, with high honors, of the University of California at Berkeley, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Representative Matters

Represented clients in a variety of complex commercial litigation involving issues such as breach of contract, unfair competition, anti-trust violations, construction litigation, trademarks, domain name disputes, defamation, commercial lease disputes, EPA clean-up, mechanics liens and related or similar matters including:
Home Depot Water Supply v. Dana Kepner (anti-trust)
Venetian v. Leo Daly (construction)
J.SH v. Venetian (breach of contract/interference with business)
Adelson v. Hananel (defamation)
BioGold v. Campos (stockholder dispute)
Bosch Rexroth v. Production Resource Group (mechanics lien)
Sands v. Sun (defamation)
Represented clients in a variety of complex cases involving issues such as coverage for construction defects, asbestos, silica, chemical soup claims, chemicals, pesticides, medical devices, tobacco and various other health hazards or toxic torts, including:
Great American v. NAS (contribution in construction)
Liberty Mutual v. Frank M. Booth (construction)
Wausau v. Pettitt (auto policy)
Fuller-Austin Insulation Co. v. Fireman's Fund (524(g) bankruptcy)
Armstrong World Industries, Inc. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety (asbestos coverage)
Occidental Petroleum v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London (petrochemicals coverage)
State of Louisiana v. American Tobacco Co., et al. (Louisiana Attorney General action - tobacco)
Lockheed v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London (aviation fuels/chemical soup coverage)

Professional Activities

American Bar Association
- Insurance Practice Section
California Bar Association
- Member, Rules & Legislation Committee
Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada
Clark County Bar Association
Bar Association of San Francisco
National Association of Women Lawyers
California Women Lawyers Association
Queen's Bench
Steering Committee, Duane Morris Women's Initiative
Commissioner Pro Tem, San Francisco Small Claims Court

Admissions

Nevada
California

Education

University of San Francisco Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1986

Law Review

University of California, Berkeley, A.B., with high honors, 1983

Experience

Duane Morris LLP
- Managing Partner, Las Vegas, 2006 - present
- Partner, 2006-present
Hancock Rothert & Bunshoft LLP
- Managing Partner, Las Vegas, 2005
- Partner, 1994-2005
- Associate, 1986 - 1994

Board Memberships

Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce
- Board of Advisors

Civic and Charitable Activities

Commissioner Pro Tem, San Francisco Small Claims Court

Honors and Awards

California Super Lawyer, 2004-2008

Selected Publications

"Federal District Court in Nevada Rules Insurer Has Right to Reimbursement for Settlement Monies Paid for Non-Covered Damages," Duane Morris Alert, June 4, 2008
"The Asbestos Litigation System in the San Francisco Bay Area: A Paradigm of the National Asbestos Litigation Crisis," The Santa Clara Law Review, December 2004
"Case Management and Other Pretrial Considerations: The Insurer's Perspective: Environmental Insurance Coverage Claims," Practising Law Institute, 1995

Selected Speaking Engagements

Speaker, "Confronting Catastrophe: Pandemics, Hurricanes, Terrorists - Oh My!" ABA Insurance Coverage Litigation Seminar, Tucson, Arizona, February 28, 2008
Speaker, "Preservation of Evidence: Where We Are and Where We're Going," Association of California Insurance Companies, XVII General Counsel Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 19-21, 2006
Speaker, "The Next Generation of Asbestos Bankruptcies," ACI's 7th National Litigating, Settling and Managing Asbestos Claims Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 15-16, 2006
Speaker, "Running the Numbers: Effectively Preparing, Presenting or Attacking the Insured's Damages Case," ABA Insurance Coverage Litigation Seminar, Tucson, Arizona, March 2-4, 2006
Moderator, "Asbestos Litigation 2004: California and Its Impact on National Litigation," University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, May 7, 2004
Speaker, "How the London Insurance Market Works," Mealey's Conference, West Palm Beach, Florida, November 2001
Moderator, "Fundamental of Insurance Litigation," CEB Conference, San Francisco, California, April 2001