GENERAL INFORMATION

CA State Bar No: 37682 Admitted to Practice: 1966

Licensed: All courts in the State of California and all Northern California federal courts

Member: State Bar of California, Alameda County Bar Association, American Trial Lawyers Association, Alameda/Contra Costa County Trial Lawyers Association, Diplomat of the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys, American Board of Trial Advocates, Master in the Earl Warren Inn of Court, Consumer Attorneys of California, and Trial Lawyers for Public Justice

EDUCATION

J.D.: University of California, Hastings College of Law, San Francisco (1965)B.A.: San Jose State University (1962)

LEGAL EXPERIENCE

Mr. Schock has over 36 years of plaintiff and defense civil litigation practice, including commercial, personal and property damage, professional malpractice, employment, discrimination, and toxic tort cases. He has extensive trial experience, including numerous jury, non-jury, arbitration, administrative, and appellate hearings. Mr. Schock has conducted civil jury trials for the former Oakland/Piedmont/Emeryville Municipal Judicial District, as well as having served as a non-jury trial judge in the same district. He has also served as a small claims commissioner/pro-tem on numerous occasions. Mr. Schock has been on the Board of the Alameda/Contra Costa Trial Lawyers Association for a number of years and is their past President. He has been a board member of the Alameda County Bar Association for two 2-year terms. He has been a delegate to the State Bar Convention on numerous occasions.

AREAS OF LEGAL AND ADR EXPERTISE

1) Professional Negligence (with an emphasis in medical malpractice) 2) Civil 3) Personal Injury 4) Toxic Torts 5) Real Estate 6) Labor and Employment 7) Civil Rights 8) Disability Access 9) General Civil  10) Insurance Coverage

ADR TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE

Mr. Schock has received over 50 hours of ADR training, consisting of classroom and practical training. He has adjudicated and mediated over 300 cases, covering tort, uninsured motorist, real estate, construction, employment, discrimination, professional malpractice, and insurance law. Mr. Schock is a SETL Commissioner with the Alameda County Superior Court. He has acted as an expert witness in professional negligence cases. Mr. Schock has also handled numerous civil rights and disability access cases providing court approved settlements requiring access and accommodation of disabilities to the general disabled public and has received multipliers of up to 1.4 for his awards benefitting the public.

FEE RATES AND METHOD OF BILLING

(Subject to written agreement or court order)

Arbitrations and Mediation:$250 per hour

Expert Testimony: $350 per hour

Disability Access Cases: $350 per hour