Before attending law school, Craig L. Hodgson worked as a litigation paralegal in a San Francisco law firm specializing in defending commercial insurance carriers. After law school, he managed the firm’s electronic document collection and production teams, assisting the firm’s pharmaceutical clients with the management of worldwide, mass tort discovery efforts.

Admissions:

California Bar, 2003
United States District Court, Northern District of California
United States Court of Appeal, Ninth Circuit

Education:

University of California at Santa Barbara, B.A. 1990
University of San Francisco School of Law, San Francisco, J.D. 2001
     emphasis on the management of complex mass tort litigation

Professional Associations & Memberships:

American Bar Association, Litigation Section
Bar Association of San Francisco
Defense Research Institute

Publications:

Co-author, “Recent Developments in Products, General Liability, and Consumer Law,” Tort and Insurance Law Journal, American Bar Association, Winter 2006.