Author Biography: Model Interrogatories

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Model Interrogatories

About the Author

Kevin R. Culhane is a partner with a law firm of Hansen, Boyd, Culhane & Watson in Sacramento, California. His practice consists primarily of professional liability and appellate law. He holds an A-V rating from Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.

He has been a visiting professor of Evidence and Torts at McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, and currently serves as an adjunct professor teaching Insurance Law and Advanced Torts. He has been faculty member at Hastings Center for Trial and Appellate Advocacy in San Francisco, and frequently lectures on discovery and trial matters for California’s Continuing Education of the Bar. He has an LLM from Stanford and his JD from McGeorge.

This full-time practice/part-time teaching combination has helped Mr. Culhane write a book useful to experienced practitioners and understandable to novices.

Mr. Culhane was also a member of the California State Bar Board of Governors, and is active in his County Bar Association. Mr. Culhane was instrumental in establishing the California State Bar’s Professional Liability Insurance Program and served as the Chair of the Board of Governors Committee on Attorney Discipline. Following a one-year term as Vice-President of the State Bar of California, Mr. Culhane was appointed to two successive terms as a member of the Judicial Council of California.

Noteworthy cases of his include Benford v. Kawasaki (defective motorcycle sidestand, $825,000 plaintiff’s verdict), North Dakota v. Neville (U.S. Supreme Court appearance as amicus in DUI refusal), Potter v. Westfield (injury settlement exceeding $7 million), and 136 Families v. Coordinated Financial Planning (assets exceeding $1 million recovered from defendant). Reported appellate cases include Adams v. Paul (1995) 11 Cal.4th 583, Chirmside v. P.E.R.S. (1983) 143 Cal. App. 3d 205; Miofsky v. Schweiker, 709 F.2d 1517 (1983), Municipal Court v. Superior Court (1992) 9 Cal. App. 4th 1867; Olney v. Sacramento Co. Bar Ass’n. (1989) 22 Cal. App. 3d 807; and CTLA v. Superior Court (1986) 187 Cal. App. 3d 575.