Richard M. Jacobson
Private Practice Lawyer
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Practice Areas
Personal Injury; Products Liability; Civil Rights; Employment Discrimination; Insurance; Government Tort Liability
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Admitted
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1984, California and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California
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Law School
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McGeorge School of Law, J.D.
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Member
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Sacramento County and American Bar Associations; State Bar of California; American Board of Trial Advocates; Defense Research Institute.
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Biography
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Managing Partner, Mackenroth Ryan Jacobson Fong, 1995-1996. Member Comment Staff, Pacific Law Journal, 1982-1983.
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Born
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Fresno, California, November 16, 1957
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Reported Cases
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Hansen v, Sunnyside Products Inc. 56 Cal.App.4th 772d; Prod. Liab. Rptr. (CCH) P15,013; 65 Cal.Rptr.2d 266; Perez v. Procter & Gamble manufacturing company 161 F. Supp. 2d 1110 (E.D.Cal 2001).
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ISLN
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906213955
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History
A graduate of the University of California at Davis, Richard Jacobson received his Bachelor of Arts degrees in public administration/public policy and history in 1979. While attending college, Mr. Jacobson was awarded the Lyndon Baines Johnson Scholarship - a program that allows a select number of outstanding students nationwide to complete an internship in the United States House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. After graduating, he entered public service and worked for two years as a program analyst for the City of Fresno.
Mr. Jacobson attended the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law where he was a member of the Comment Staff of the Pacific Law Journal. Upon receiving his Juris Doctor degree in 1984, Mr. Jacobson joined the law firm of Mackenroth Ryan Jacobson Fong as an associate and became an equity partner in the firm in 1989. In 1995, he was elected managing partner. In 1996 he formed his own litigation practice and in 1998 he and his staff joined forces with Patrick T. Markham, providing a broad base of litigation support for their clients.
Experienced in both state and federal courts, Mr. Jacobson has argued in the California Courts of Appeal and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has also held the status of Amicus Curiae with the California Supreme Court.
Mr. Jacobson has litigated cases involving personal injury, products liability, commercial, employment discrimination, wrongful termination, property damage, real estate, construction, public entity and environmental issues. He currently represents member school districts of a Northern California joint powers insurance authority in significant Government Tort Claims Act and personal injury litigation. He has had demonstrated trial success, and has prevailed in trials involving personal injury, products liability, premises liability and employment discrimination/wrongful termination in the federal and state courts throughout northern California.
Published cases include Hansen v. Sunnyside Products, Inc., 65 Cal. Rptr. 2d 266, CCH Prod. Liab. Rep. P15,013 (1997), See also, comment to BAJI 9.00.5; Perez v. Procter & Gamble, 161 F. Supp. 2d 1110 (2001)
Mr. Jacobson is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) and has been a guest speaker for the Sacramento Claims Association and the biennial Texaco insurance litigation conference in southern California on such topics as indemnity and insurance provisions in leases and contracts, and ostensible agency tort theories. He regularly sits as judge pro tem in the settlement conference department of the Sacramento County Superior Court and as a judicial arbitrator and mediator.
Mr. Jacobson is a member of the California and Sacramento County Bar Associations, Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California, and the Defense Research Institute.
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