Tina Imre Biography

Tina Imre is a partner and head of the Los Angeles Appellate Department of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP. An appellate strategist, she specializes in representing corporate defendants in cases presenting institutional issues and punitive damages. But her practice isn't limited to appellate and supreme courts. She frequently consults during trial of complex matters, helping to craft legal arguments, properly posture the case and preserve the record for appeal. A recognized expert on punitive damages and high-exposure appeals, she is regularly interviewed and quoted by the national media.

In the last few years, Ms. Imre has

• eliminated over half a billion dollars in verdicts against her clients
• handled or consulted on cases in California, Alaska, Arizona, Illinois, Kentucky, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Utah, Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Texas
• been involved in 500 appeals and has dozens of published opinions on punitive damages, constitutional issues, insurance , class actions, mass or complex torts.
  
  RECENT REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS.
  Selected as appellate counsel for: Goodrich v. Aetna, appeal from the largest judgment ever entered nationwide against an HMO; for the Catholic Church in coordinated punitive damages cases; appeal from a 200-plaintiff construction defect case
  
  PUBLICATIONS.
• 100-page monograph on punitive damages after State Farm v. Campbell, available at wlf.org
• writes a monthly column on the California Supreme Court
• wrote three chapters of a major treatise on appellate practice,
• contributing editor (six chapters) to the leading treatise on California Insurance Law,
• numerous monographs and articles on punitive damages, insurance and appellate advocacy

RECENT LECTURES: Punitive Damages, Insurance, Appellate.

• American Conference Institute (San Francisco and Miami);
• Association of California Insurance Companies (Las Vegas);
• Insurance Brokers & Agents of the West (Hawaii);
• Cal. Continuing Education of the Bar (Los Angeles, Orange County);
• Private insurer organizations (Continental U.S. & Bermuda)
• Rutter Group (San Francisco)

SOME RECENT HONORS/AWARDS.

• Voted by her peers a “Southern California Super Lawyer” for 2004 and 2005 by Los Angeles Magazine & Journal for Law & Politics
• Named one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Los Angeles Law” by the Los Angeles Business Journal
• Fellow, California Academy of Appellate Lawyers
• CEB Board of Governors and Advisory Committee