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Exhibit A: Curriculum Vitae: Steven Kazan
STEVEN KAZAN, born in New York, N.Y., is the founder and senior partner of the Oakland, California firm of Kazan, McClain, Abrams, Lyons, Farrise & Greenwood, A Professional Law Corporation, a 14 lawyer plaintiff firm specializing in asbestos, occupational and environmental disease, and catastrophic injury litigation. Mr. Kazan received his B.A. from Brandeis University in 1963 and his L.L.B. degree from The Harvard Law School in 1966. Mr. Kazan has been a member of the New York Bar since 1967 and California Bar since 1970. He was Assistant to the General Counsel, Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D.C. from 1967-1969. He was an Assistant United States Attorney, Northern District of California, 1969-1971. After two years with a plaintiffs' medical malpractice specialty firm in San Francisco, he started a private practice in Oakland in 1974. Mr. Kazan is admitted to the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court (1971); U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1969), Third Circuit (1994); and Fifth Circuit (1995); U.S. District Courts of the Northern District of California (1970) and Eastern District of California (1979). Mr. Kazan is Class Counsel in Ahearn v. Fibreboard (Fibreboard Global Settlement); a member of Asbestos Victims Creditors' Committees -- Amatex, Celotex, and H.K. Porter Bankruptcies; counsel to Mr. JamesVermuelen, founder of Asbestos Victims of America, in his role as the only lay member of the Manville Trust Asbestos Victims Creditors Committee; a member of the Trustees Advisory Committee to the Celotex and Amatex Victims Creditors' Trusts; the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee-Asbestos Multi-District Litigation; and the Asbestos Litigation Group, 1975 to present. Mr. Kazan chaired the National Plaintiffs' Asbestos Litigation Seminar from 1985-1991. Mr. Kazan is a member, former Vice-President (1990), and former Board Member 1980-1996) of the California Trial Lawyers Association, now the Consumer Attorneys of California; with recognized experience in the fields of trial practice, professional negligence, general personal injury, and products liability law; member (1974 to date) and former President (1980), of the Alameda Contra Costa Trial Lawyers Association; member of The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; and member of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice and its Program Development Committee.
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