Dolores Dalton’s practice emphasizes insurance coverage, bad faith litigation, commercial and public entity litigation, federal practice and appeals. She has more than twenty years’ experience litigating complex insurance and bad faith issues on behalf of insurers and policyholders in state and federal trial courts, and on appeal.

Ms. Dalton is also a trained mediator and a member of the appellate mediation panels for the California Court of Appeal for the First and Third Districts. She has successfully mediated a number of complex tort and insurance cases.

Ms. Dalton is the former chair of the City of Albany Planning Commission (2000-2002). She is also a founding member and former president of the Albany Music Fund, a nonprofit formed to preserve and enhance the music program in the City of Albany’s public schools. She has taught at Golden Gate University Law School and in the University of California, Berkeley’s Fall Program for Freshmen.

Ms. Dalton is the author of “Advertising Liability Insurance Coverage for Unfair Competition,” 12 C.E.B. Civil Litigation Rptr. 291 (1990), reprinted in A.B.A. Coverage (1991).

While in law school, Ms. Dalton was the Associate Comments Editor for the University of San Francisco Law Review.

Admissions:

California Bar, 1980

Education:

University of California, Berkeley, A.B. 1977
University of San Francisco School of Law, J.D. 1980