Robert "Rod" O. Divelbiss
Partner
235 Pine Street, Suite 1300
San Francisco, CA 94104
T: 415.788.4646
F: 415.788.6929

Practice Areas:
Litigation
Products Liability

   
Practice Experience
Rod Divelbiss has been engaged in litigation practice since 1981 with an emphasis on real estate, construction law, products liability, unfair competition, employment, banking, property tax, antitrust and RICO, and numerous other complex and commercial business matters. His practice also includes representing financial institutions in a variety of matters including bad faith and forgery actions. Rod is a 1980 graduate of Hastings College of the Law, during which time he clerked with the California Supreme Court. Following graduation, Rod received an appointment to serve as a law clerk to federal judge Howard B. Turrentine. He has also served as a judge pro tem in San Francisco since 1988.

Admitted
1981, California

Education
Santa Clara University (B.S., cum laude, 1977)
University of California, Hastings College of Law (J.D., 1980)

Author
Prevention of Unfair Business Practices in California: A Proposal for Effective Regulation, 32 Hastings Law Journal 229 (1980)

Biography
Thurston Honor Society
Law Clerk to Associate Justice William P. Clark, California Supreme Court, 1979
Law Clerk to Hon. Howard B. Turrentine, U.S. District Court Southern District of California, 1981-1982
Legal Writing and Research Instructor, Hastings College of Law, 1985-1987

Member
Bar Association of San Francisco
Alameda County Bar Association
San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association
Lawyers Club of San Francisco