Practice Summary

Mr. Lindh has practiced law in San Francisco, California since 1974. He resigned his partnership in Dorr Cooper & Hays in 1984 to form the partnership of Walsh Donovan & Lindh where he remained until August, 1999, when he joined Gibson & Robb. He became a name partner at Gibson Robb & Lindh in January 2001.

He specializes in maritime and aviation matters, product liability defense and insurance coverage disputes. He defends insureds for both domestic and foreign marine insurers in a variety of areas, including personal injury and wrongful death claims under general maritime law, Jones Act and 905(b) actions, marina liability, repairer's liability, and construction defect claims. Mr. Lindh has substantial experience in product liability matters and represents a variety of power tool, household product, and construction product manufacturers in litigation throughout California with experience in personal injury, construction, and fire property loss claim.

Mr. Lindh is a certified mediator, and is currently engaged by San Francisco Superior Court as a mediator for self represented litigants. Mr. Lindh was named in 2008 as one of Northern California's Transportation & Maritime Super Lawyers by Law & Politics Magazine and San Francisco Magazine.

Teaching

Mr. Lindh has served as a guest lecturer for the California Maritime Academy’s Continuing Education Program and the Board of Marine Underwriters of San Francisco. Mr. Lindh presented "The Aftermath of Maritime Disasters: the Exxon Valdez Perspective" to the International Conference on Maritime Crisis Management in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore in September 1994 and subsequently to the Marine Underwriters of Southern California (Los Angeles 1995) San Francisco Marine Underwriters (San Francisco 1996), and Johnson & Higgins of California, (San Francisco 1996). He presented "OPA 90: An Update" in San Francisco in July 1998 and in Long Beach in April 1999.

Publications

California Discovery Reform Act: An Update (San Francisco 1987)
Products Liability in Admiralty (San Francisco 1997)
Maritime Personal Injury Defense (San Francisco 1999), contributor.
Pacific Coast Forum (California Oil Spill Requirements Expand to non-tank Vessels), April 2000.

Memberships

California State Bar
Maritime Law Association of the United States
American Bar Association (Member Litigation and Product Liability Sections)
Defense Research Institute
(Member Product Liability Section - Power Tools and Consumer and Household Products Subsections)
National Fire Protection Association

Educational Background

Hastings College of the Law, University of California, J.D. (1974)
U.C. Berkeley, Special Career Fellowship, Chinese History (1968-1970)
St. Louis University, B.A., History (1968)

Summa Cum Laude
Phi Beta Kappa  
National Merit Scholarship Semi-Finalist