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Curt Cutting
Partner
Curt Cutting joined the firm in 1997
and became a partner in 2005.
He has been lead appellate
counsel in cases involving
products
and premises liability, toxic torts, insurance
coverage and bad faith, contract disputes,
and inverse condemnation. He is admitted to practice
in California, Washington and several federal appellate
courts.
Mr. Cutting was lead appellate counsel
for the City of San Diego in Border
Business Park v. City of San Diego, in which
the Court of Appeal published an opinion reversing
a $122.5 million judgment
against the City for inverse condemnation and breach
of contract. In 2007, Mr. Cutting was honored
with a CLAY (California Lawyer Attorney of
the Year) award
for his work on the Border
Business Park case.
(Click
here to read the article.)
In 2008, Mr. Cutting was named one
of the top 20 California lawyers under the age of 40.
(Click here to read the article.)
Mr. Cutting has handled a number
of cases in which multi-million dollar punitive damage
awards were reversed
or sharply reduced. He has
also filed several amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme
Court in punitive damages cases, including Cooper
v. Leatherman and
State
Farm v. Campbell. He is also one of the primary
contributors to the firm's blog on punitive damages litigation.
Mr. Cutting
is a founding member of the American Bar Association's
Council of Appellate
Lawyers, the first
national bench-bar organization for appellate lawyers.
He served on the executive board of the Council
from
2000-2003.
Mr. Cutting has been a frequent speaker on the subjects
of appellate practice, punitive damages, and California's
civil jury instructions.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr.
Cutting held a judicial clerkship with the Hon.
Ruggero J.
Aldisert, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. Before
that, he was an attorney with the Office of Chief
Counsel of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
Mr. Cutting received his Bachelor of Science in
physics and Bachelor of Arts in history from Ohio
University
and his Juris Doctor from Seattle University School
of Law.
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