Girard Fisher

• Born San Diego , California , 1945.
  
  Admitted to bar, 1973, California; all California U.S. District Courts, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth District, and U.S. Supreme Court.
  
  Education:
  
  University of California at Berkeley (A.B., 1967); California State University (M.A., 1977); University of San Diego (J.D., 1973).  Law Clerk: U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, 1974-1975.
  
  Member:
  
  State Bar of California ; Los Angeles County , and American Bar Associations; American Board of Trial Advocates; Association of Southern California Defense Counsel.
  
  Trials:
  
  Mr. Fisher has tried more than sixty jury trials to conclusion in the superior and federal courts involving catastrophic injury and death, governmental tort liability, insurance bad faith, insurance coverage, inverse condemnation, breach of contract, and securities fraud.
  
  Published Appeals:
  
  Mr. Fisher has argued more than fifty appeals in the state and federal appellate courts, as well as three cases before the California supreme Court.  Twenty-five of those cases resulted in published opinions.
  
  Publications:
  
  Mr. Fisher is the author of "Design Immunity for Public Entities," 28 University of San Diego Law Review 241 (1991), and is a co-author of California Government Tort Liability Practice (CEB 2009).
  
  Speaker:
  
  Mr. Fisher has been a speaker on topics including:
  
  • Attorney's Fees (C.E.B., 1984)
  • Design Immunity (Southern California City Attorneys Association, 1991, California County
  • Counsel Association, 1993, and SCJPIA Risk Managers, 1995)
  • Government Tort Claim Procedures (League of California Cities, 1991)
  • Police Negligence (Association of Police Defense Counsel, 1992)
  • Police Liability (Society of Claim Law Associates, 1994)
  • Recent Developments in Municipal Liability (League of California Cities, 1995)
  • Slip and Fall, the Government Perspective (Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, 1996).
  
  
  Arbitrator:
  
  National Association of Securities Dealers, 1979; Los Angeles Superior Court, 1984. Judge Pro Tem Los Angeles Municipal Court, 1982.