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Neil R. Bardack 
Partner
phone: (415) 905-0200
email: nbardack@mbvz.com

 

Areas of Practice:
Civil Trials and Appeals
* Intellectual Property
* Corporate/Business
* Natural Resources (Water, Oil & Gas)
Arbitrations
Business Transactions

Neil R. Bardack is a litigation/trial partner who has handled a substantial number of court and jury trials, appeals and arbitrations in state and federal courts in the areas of technology, securities, unfair competition, fiduciary fraud, corporate and business disputes, real estate leases and natural resources involving water, oil and gas.  He is a longtime and skilled arbitrator, with over twenty-five years on the American Arbitration Association Commercial Panel.  

Mr. Bardack has broad transactional experience.  He served as outside general counsel to a publically held technology company handling all manner of litigation and contract and securities issues.  He negotiated leases and structured gas drilling programs as well as lease terminations and field remedial work.  Additionally, he represents several prominent San Francisco cooperative apartment corporations.

Bar Admissions:
California, 1972
U.S. District Court Northern District of California
U.S. District Court Eastern District of California
U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
Education:
University of California, Hastings College of the Law
San Francisco, California, 1970, Juris Doctorate


University of Southern California, 1967, A.B. Cum Laude, International Relations


Published Works:
Selected Panelist and Contributor to Contract Negotiations and Preparation in the Oil and Gas Industry: Drafting Complete and Unambiguous Agreements, Lorman Education Services, 2005


Representative Cases:
United States v. Truckee-Carson Irrigation Dist., 429 F.3d 902 (9th Cir. 2005)
United States v. Orr Water Ditch Co., 391 F.3d 1077 (9th Cir. 2004)
As You Sow v. Conbraco Industries, 135 Cal.App.4th 431 (1st. Dist. 2005)
Zack v. Marin Emergency Radio Authority, 118 Cal.App.4th 617 (1st. Dist. 2004)
Mateel Environmental Justice Foundation v. Edmund A. Gray Co., 115 Cal.App.4th 8 (1st. Dist. 2003)
Distinctions:
Judge Pro Tem, San Francisco Superior Court


Fellow, American Bar Association


San Francisco Bar Association Fee Dispute Panel


Association of Business Trial Lawyers of Northern California


AV Rated in Martindale-Hubbell


State Bar of California


2004-2006 California Super Lawyers of Northern California, San Francisco Magazine


Languages:
Spanish

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