Specialty
Marc specializes in handling high-profile insurance and general civil litigation.

Educational Background

• Boalt Hall School of Law, U.C. Berkeley, J.D. , Order of the Coif, American Jurisprudence honors in Property, Legal Writing, Evidence, Corporations, Will and Trusts, and Commercial Transactions.
  
  
• University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, Bachelor of Commerce Degree in 1987, studied accounting and law.

Professional Activities

• Immediate past Co-Chair of the Orange County Bar Association Insurance Law Section
  
  
• Member of the State Bar of California, American Bar Association
  
  
• Member of the Orange County Superior Court Civil Case Management Committee

Lectures

Marc has given numerous lectures on insurance law, including: "Birth of an Insurance Claim--The Trigger of Coverage and the Tender of a Claim to the Insurer," at the annual meeting of the ABA in 1995, and speeches regarding insurance coverage for construction defects litigation for Mealey's Insurance Coverage Seminar 1996 and 1997.

He also spoke at the Mealey's Insurance Coverage Seminar in 1998 on issues regarding allocation. In July 1998, he presented the CEB program entitled "Identifying and Using Insurance Coverage in Business Litigation" in San Jose, San Francisco and Costa Mesa, California. Mr. Maister also spoke at and Co-Chaired Mealey's Construction Defect: Litigation and Coverage Conference on December 3-4, 1998 in Santa Monica, California. Mr. Maister was a speaker at the March 4-5, 1999 Institute for Corporate Counsel seminar.

He will be speaking at a year 2000 insurance seminar for Mealey's Publications in July 1999. In addition, he has lectured for the past two years in Insurance Law at the UCLA School of Law. His article, "Trigger of Coverage: A Contract Approach," was published in the American Bar Association's Summer 1995 issue.