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Apr. 20, 2021
A lawyer’s lawyer
Robert ‘Bob’ Bertram Steinberg (1928-2021) tried the first asbestos case west of the Mississippi and established the ‘peculiar risk doctrine.’
In 1980, Bob Steinberg had a cluster of asbestos cases. Twelve in all. At the time, no asbestos case had ever been tried west of the Mississippi; the "value," or "market," had not been established. The defense team huddled together and settled 11 cases leaving only one, seen as the worst of the bunch, for Bob to put to a jury. The case would establish the benchmark for the nearly 1,700 other asbestos cases pending in Los Angeles County Superior Court. This was before ...
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