Richard D. Hoffman
Partner
Duane Morris LLP
Suite 2200
One Market Plaza, Spear Tower
San Francisco, CA 94105-1127
USA

Phone: +1 415 957 3127
Fax: +1 415 723 7443
Email: RHoffman@duanemorris.com

Richard D. Hoffman practices in the area of litigation with a focus on commercial and insurance coverage issues. Hoffman advises corporations, professionals and fiduciaries—including attorneys, directors and officers, brokers and accountants—in insurance litigation. He represents insurers in coverage issues, civil actions, arbitrations and bad-faith claims. Hoffman has represented clients in trials and arbitrations involving legal fees, coverage under specialty lines of insurance, bad-faith cases and legal malpractice actions.

Mr. Hoffman is a 1977 graduate of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he was editor of Constitutional Law Quarterly and elected to the Order of the Coif, and a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Areas of Practice

• Commercial Litigation
• Insurance Coverage

Professional Activities

• American Bar Association
  - Associate, National Legal Malpractice Data Center (Division of Standing Committee on Lawyers Professional Liability)
• State Bar of California
  - Former Member, Professional Liability Insurance
• San Francisco Bar Association

Admissions

• California
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
• U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
• California Supreme Court
• California Court of Appeals

Education

• University of California, Hastings College of the Law, J.D., 1977
  - Editor, Constitutional Law Quarterly
  - Order of the Coif
• University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., with honors, 1973

Experience

• Duane Morris LLP
  - Partner, 2010-present
• Nixon Peabody LLP
  - Partner, 2001-2010
• Lillick & Charles
  - Partner, 1984-2001
  - Associate, 1980-1984

Selected Speaking Engagements

• Panelist, "The Mortgage Crisis and Real Estate Lawyer Liability," American Bar Association Lawyers Malpractice Meeting, San Francisco, 2008
• Panelist, "Fiduciary Liability of Attorneys," American Bar Association Lawyers Malpractice Meeting, New York City, 2006
• Speaker, "Significant Coverage Decisions 2005-2006," Legal Malpractice & Risk Management Conference, Chicago, 2006