Roster Changes - Dedication to Clients Remains

Chamberlin & Keaster LLP has a national practice in Los Angeles, California. The Firm’s partners all received their training at large national law firms prior to forming Chamberlin & Keaster. The Firm is committed to providing legal services of the quality and professionalism a client would expect from a large law firm, while also offering the personalized and cost efficient approach a smaller firm can provide.  Further, the firm understands and practices litigation metrics as part of its commitment to provide efficient and effective legal services.  The firm is also committed to alternative fee arrangements to best meet a client’s needs.

The Firm has extensive experience representing Fortune 500 companies, small businesses and insurance companies in matters involving domestic and international business transactions, general commercial and contract disputes, products liability, intellectual property, real estate, banking, unfair competition, professional liability, insurance coverage and bad faith, director and officer liability, environmental law, civil RICO and construction defect claims. The Firm also serves as National Counsel to several insurance companies.

The Firm advises clients on all aspects of legal, regulatory, and business affairs.  Lawyers at the Firm are dedicated to providing clients with the level of guidance and informed judgment that protects business interests and limits litigation. In addition to presenting the pros and cons of a specific course of action, the Firm’s lawyers provide practical recommendations as to the prudent course of action based upon extensive knowledge and experience.

Chamberlin & Keaster LLP is:
Partners
Kirk C. Chamberlin
Robert W. Keaster
Scott A. Secor

Senior Counsel
Craig H. Bell
Michael A. Miller

Associates
Kevin J. Schettig
Calvin S. Whang

Chamberlin Keaster & Brockman LLP Gets Back to its Roots

Offers Real Estate transactional and litigation representation.

February 28, 2014 - Los Angeles, CA -- Chamberlin Keaster & Brockman LLP gets back to its roots offering Real Estate transactional and litigation representation. Attorney Kirk Chamberlin started his legal career representing financial institutions, such as First Los Angeles Bank and Union Bank of California, in real estate matters. Now, a licensed Real Estate Broker in California, Chamberlin is embarking on a new approach to the market that combines years of experience with a fundamental understanding of the legal obstacles that face California Banking institutions. This unique broker / attorney combination enables Mr Chamberlin to take a much more creative approach to the resolution of real estate issues - both commercial and personal. For more information regarding legal services offered by Chamberlin Keaster & Brockman LLP., please contact Kirk Chamberlin at (818) 385-1303. 

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Attorney Kirk C. Chamberlin on Insurance Coverage, Reinsurance & Bad Faith Litigation

Chamberlin Keaster & Brockman LLP regularly represents insurance companies in insurance coverage, reinsurance coverage and bad faith litigation. The Firm prepares coverage opinions and advises on insurance policy interpretation and bad faith ramifications of corporate actions.
Representative areas of coverage litigation include environmental, claims for hazardous waste and toxic tort, employment practices, health and disability, products liability, long-term care, property, securities fraud, patent infringement, construction defect, real estate fraud, and related business torts that have been tendered for defense and indemnification under various types of insurance policies, including primary, umbrella and excess liability policies. The Firm has extensive experience in handling high profile coverage litigation, and has acted as counsel in coverage actions in Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Washington D.C.
In the area of Reinsurance, the Firm is involved in advising carriers on packaging and presenting claims to reinsurers, as well as collection of reinsurance claims. The Firm‟s emphasis on reinsurance has been on asbestos and environmental matters. We are in the unique position of being able to coordinate with London-based firms to expedite the resolution of insurance matters.

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Los Angeles Attorney Kirk Chamberlin on Business and Commercial Litigation

Business and Commercial Litigation

Attorney Kirk Chamberlin and his colleagues at Chamberlin Keaster & Brockman LLP represent corporations, partnerships and other business entities in a wide variety of commercial litigation engagements, including trademark infringement, products liability, construction defects, real estate fraud, and related business torts. The Firm represents shareholders in corporate stock litigation, financial institutions, private and public foundations, and manufacturing concerns.
The Firm's practice also includes business transactions such as corporate and partnership formations, real estate purchase and lease transactions, executive tax planning, estate planning and deferred compensation arrangements.

For more information, please see http://www.ckbllp.com and http://chamberlin.bonovoxpr.com. 

Kirk Chamberlin - Practice Areas: Appellate

Chamberlin Keaster & Brockman LLP has extensive experience representing Fortune 500 companies, small businesses and insurance companies in matters involving domestic and international business transactions, general commercial and contract disputes, products liability, intellectual property, real estate, banking, unfair competition, professional liability, insurance coverage and bad faith, director and officer liability, environmental law, civil RICO and construction defect claims. The Firm also serves as National Counsel to several insurance companies.

Appellate -  Kirk Chamberlin regularly represents our clients in appellate matters, crafting persuasive, winning arguments that shape the law in our practice areas. Our partners have briefed and argued cases before the California, Texas and Washington Supreme Courts.

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Kirk Chamberlin Attorney | Emerging Issues - New California Supreme Court Stacking Case

In State of California v. Continental Insurance Company, the California Supreme Court ruled that in a case of continuing loss, all insurers have a duty to indemnify up to their policy limits if any of the property damage occurred during the policy period. Specifically, the Court reasoned that under the “all sums” language contained in the policies, “the grant of coverage does not limit the policies’ promise to pay ‘all sums’ of the policyholder’s liability solely to sums or damage ‘during the policy period.’” The Court further seized on the arguments made by the State in noting that “the ‘during the policy period’ language does not appear in the ‘Insuring Agreement’ section of the policy and therefore is neither ‘logically nor grammatically related to the ‘all sums’ language in the insuring agreement.’”  >> Click to Read More

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Los Angeles-based attorney Kirk Chamberlin highlights emerging issues in Insurance Law

Environmental Claims

CERCLA Liability for Government Entities Based on Activities as Regulator; Illinois Court of Appeal Finds Coverage Was Validly Assigned from Named Insured to Successor Entity; California Appellate Court Finds No Coverage for Civil Penalties for Alleged Statutory Violations in Insured’s Sale of Products; Virginia Supreme Court Affirms Trial Court’s Dismissal of Climate Change Insurance Coverage Claims Download File »

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