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Mr. Deane has extensive civil litigation experience in the following practice areas:
Employment (wrongful discharge, sexual harassment and discrimination cases)
Professional liability
Pharmaceutical, medical device and product liability
Directors and officers liability
Environmental and toxic torts
Premises and general liability matters
Before joining Dykema, Mr. Deane was a partner with Wilion, Kirkwood, Hoffman & Deane in Los Angeles where he was panel counsel for a major insurance carrier, and successfully defended corporate officers and directors, nonprofit corporations, and homeowner associations in planned developments, primarily in employment and fiduciary duty cases. Prior to that time, Mr. Deane was a member of nationally recognized law firms in San Francisco and Los Angeles, where he represented attorneys and health care providers in malpractice actions, and handled complex cases in multi-party and multi-district litigation involving donated blood and transfusion or hemophilia-associated AIDS, breast implants, pharmaceuticals, and other consumer or medical products. In 1988, Mr. Deane second-chaired the first transfusion-associated AIDS case to reach trial and jury verdict in California.
Professional Associations
American Bar Association
Los Angeles County Bar Association
Defense Research Institute
State Bar of California.
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