The Law Offices of David M. Zeff: Special Counsel to Guy Kornblum & Associates

David M. Zeff has been in practice in San Francisco since graduating from Hastings College of the Law in 1974.  His firm, the Law Offices of David M. Zeff, shares space with Guy Kornblum & Associates and, on specific complex cases, his firm associates with Guy Kornblum & Associates to achieve synergies that are a material bonus to the client.

Mr. Zeff graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1971, with an AB degree in history, with emphasis on Chinese history.  He then attended Hastings, and while there served as the teaching assistant for Guy Kornblum and Joseph Rodgers in their pioneering Trial Evidence Seminar.  While at Hastings Mr. Zeff also served as a Graduate Student Assistant at the State Bar of California, on both disciplinary and legislative matters, and then at the California State Attorney General’s Office on large antitrust cases. 

Upon graduation from Hastings, Mr. Zeff served as Court Administrator and Assistant Special Master in the Antibiotics Antitrust Litigation for the Hon. Miles Lord in the U.S. District Court in Minnesota.  Mr. Zeff was thereafter employed in a private antitrust practice and as in house counsel at Safeway Stores, Inc., in the fields of antitrust and trade regulation.  Mr. Zeff started his current law practice in 1985, continuing to work in the fields of complex civil litigation as well as litigation involving commercial, intellectual property, real property and personal injury law. 

Mr. Zeff served for 8 years as the Chair of the Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF) Committee on Arbitration of Fee Disputes and he has held other positions on Committees of the State Bar of California, BASF and the Marin County Bar.  He was given the BASF Award of Merit in 1986.  Mr. Zeff has been appointed by the San Francisco Superior  Court and BASF to arbitrate high profile attorney-fee disputes and he has testified as an expert witness in this field.

David lives with his family in Marin County.  He enjoys running, biking, gardening, sailing, ab diving and other outdoor activities, support of environmental protection and preservation, and the Lair of the Bear (7th week) summer camp every year.  He and his wife participate in and contribute to MALT, the Marin Agricultural Land Trust, which preserves open space, wildlife habitat and the agricultural industry in Marin County.