Gayle L. Gough has extensive experience in the areas of class actions, personal injury, products liability, and warranty and contract actions. She has tried cases before juries and arbitrators, served as regional counsel and supervised statewide litigation with multi-million dollar exposure.
Gayle L. Gough has extensive experience in the areas of class actions, personal injury, products liability, and warranty and contract actions. She has tried cases before juries and arbitrators, served as regional counsel and supervised statewide litigation with multi-million dollar exposure.
Litigation Matters
Cases defended by Ms. Gough have included:
- Peterson v. AIMCO (class action allegations dismissed).
- Harrell v. Tucker (jury returned defense verdict after two-week trial on liability in personal injury action).
- Kleiman v. 21st Century Insurance Company (defense awards returned in binding arbitration on the claims of three insureds against their insurer).
- Continuum Electro-Optics v. LORAD (binding arbitration resulted in defense award on multi-million dollar contract action involving high technology equipment).
- Applegate v. St. Francis Lutheran Church (prevailed on appeal).
- Five years of personal injury actions filed against Brown & Williamson in California all resulted in either defense judgments on motions or dismissals for cost waivers.
Memberships & Honors
She is a member of the American Bar Association and the San Francisco Bar Association. She serves on the panel of court appointed judicial arbitrators for the San Francisco Superior Court.
During law school, Ms. Gough was a staff member of the University of San Francisco Law Review in which she was published. She served a judicial externship for Justice Benson (California Court of Appeal), and received a number of awards, including the Dean's Award, graduating first in class. Ms. Gough was also the recipient of the Retention Scholarship and American Jurisprudence Awards in Civil Procedure, Torts, Legal Research and Writing, Property, Criminal Procedure, Constitutional Law, Evidence and Remedies.