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DOMINIC J. CAMPISI
Dominic Campisi was born in San Jose, California,
April 30, 1944. He attended Bellarmine
High School in San
Jose and obtained his B.A. in 1966 from the University of Santa
Clara. Mr. Campisi has a Masters Degree in
Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
Affairs, Princeton
University (1968).
He obtained his Juris Doctor degree from the Yale Law
School (1974).
While at Yale Mr. Campisi was an Associate Chubb Fellow and an Editor of
the Yale Law Journal. After graduating from Yale Law School Mr. Campisi
was Law Clerk to Judge Eugene A. Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Ninth Circuit during 1974 and 1975.
Mr. Campisi began law practice with the San Francisco firm
of Morrison & Foerster in 1975, leaving that firm in 1980 to join
Thomas Latham in founding Evans, Latham & Campisi.
Mr. Campisi specializes in fiduciary
litigation and is nationally known as an expert in this field. He has
litigated and lectured extensively in the area of investment law, breach
of fiduciary duties by express fiduciaries, partners, controlling
shareholders and investment advisors. He has tried 40 cases in State and
Federal Courts and in many jurisdictions.
He is a Fellow of the American College of
Trust and Estate Counsel and Academician, International Academy of Estate
and Trust Law and has written and lectured extensively in the area of
probate and trust litigation. He is a faculty member of the American Bankers Association
National Graduate
Trust School.
He has served as a lecturer for California CEB. on probate and trust
litigation, real property Remedies and Litigation and Escrow Disputes. He
has lectured for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, ALI-ABA, the National
Association of Trust Audit and Compliance Professionals, and numerous
banking and estate planning groups.
Mr. Campisi is a member of the State Bar
of California and the American Bar Association. He is a member of the ABA
Sections on Litigation; Antitrust Law; Real Property, Probate and Trust
Law. He was Chairman of the Estate and Trust Litigation Committee of the
Section on Real Property, Probate and Trust Law (RPPTL) from 1984 through
1988 and Vice-Chairman from 1981 to 1984 and again in 1988 to 1996. He
was Editor, Book and Media Committee, RPPTL, 1989-1990. He is currently
chair of the ABA Malpractice Committee of RPPTL. He is a member of the ABA’s Coordinating Group on Biotechnology and
the Law and the RPPTL Section Liaison to the ABA and American Bankers
Association’s National Conference of Corporate & Fiduciary
Lawyers.
Dom is a nature photographer and a
director of Cuvaison Winery in Napa
Valley. He lives in
Walnut Creek, California with his wife and,
occasionally, his three daughters.
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