CURRICULUM VITAE

BYRON EDWARD SIEGEL

BACKGROUND

Personal: Married to Bobette Siegel

Summary: Practicing trial attorney in multiple areas of medicolegal law, specifically:

Ÿ Sophisticated Auto Negligence Injuries

Ÿ Pharmaceutical Liability

Ÿ Medical Malpractice & Attorney Professional Liability

Ÿ Premises Liability (including Slip & Fall)

Ÿ General Negligence, including Federal Multi-District Litigation (MDL) and State Class Actions

EXPERIENCE:

1976-Present: Private Practice - Byron E. Siegel, P.C. - specializing in all phases of Personal Injury:

Ÿ Auto Negligence Injuries

Ÿ Pharmaceutical Liability

Ÿ Medical Malpractice

Ÿ Birth Trauma

Ÿ Closed Head Injuries (and other traumatic brain injuries)

Ÿ Wrongful Death

Ÿ Multi-District Litigation Class Actions (State and Federal)

Ÿ Medical Evaluations for Rule 11 Hearings in Arizona State Superior Court

Ÿ Legal Professional Liability

Ÿ Personal injury case evaluations, including medical analysis for Yavapai- Apache Nation in Camp Verde, Arizona

Ÿ Mediations, arbitrations and alternative dispute resolution

1975-1976 Trial Attorney with San Francisco, California law firm:

Cartwright, Slobodin, Bokelman, Borowsky, Warnick, Moore & Harris, Inc.

1970-1975 Junior Partner at Southfield, Michigan law firm:

Sommers, Schwartz, Tyler & Gordon, P.C.

AFFILIATIONS:

Of counsel to:

Ÿ Robert Bokelman, Esq., Redwood City, California (650) 207-7357

Ÿ William S. Leonard, Esq., Encino, California (818) 205-9992

LANGUAGES: Fluent in Spanish, especially conversational Page Two

SOCIAL Board Member of Charitable, Religious and Homeowners Organizations

INTERESTS: Blood Drive organizer and director for 25 years

Physical fitness, including six marathons (Arizona Road Racers) charitable and societal activities including Heard Museum, Phoenix Art Museum and Desert Botanical Gardens

EDUCATION:

High School: Mumford High School, Detroit, Michigan

Activities: House of Representatives; member of medical, radio broadcasting and Spanish language clubs

College: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Degree: Bachelor of Arts in History - 1964

Major in History, minors in Business, Psychology and Sociology

Activities: Undergraduate social fraternity, intramural sports and piano

Law School: Wayne State University Law School, Detroit, Michigan

Degree: Juris Doctor - 1968

Medical The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

School: Academic: Courses taken in the School of Medicine on a Master of Science Degree Program, 1968:

Ÿ Human Gross Anatomy - full cadaver dissection

Ÿ Human Pathology and labs

Ÿ Human Physiology and labs

Graduate Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (1969-1970)

Law School: Degree: Masters of Law Degree in Medicolegal Law (1970)

Academic: L.L.M. Degree in Medicolegal Law - thesis completed (1970)

Theses: “The Role Of Trauma As A Medicolegal Cause of Bacterial Infectious Disease”

Courses:

Ÿ Medical Jurisprudence

Ÿ Law Medicine Seminar

Ÿ Individual student research in Medicolegal Law

Ÿ Pathology research, lectures and seminars at the Case Western Reserve

Ÿ University Institute of Pathology (Lester Adelson, M.D. and Charles Hirsch, M.D. - Forensic Pathologist)

Ÿ Pharmacology courses including Side Effects of Pharmaceuticals (Goodman/Grilman) Toxicology research, lectures and seminars at Cuyahoga County Coroner’s Office (Irving Sunshine, Ph.D., Forensic Toxicologist)

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Law-Medicine

Internship

Program: Cuyahoga County Coroner’s Office:

Ÿ Autopsy Assistant

Ÿ Forensic Pathology

Ÿ Toxicology Procedures

United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio:

Ÿ Legal assistant for defense

Ÿ Medicolegal cases concerning Federal Tort Claims Act

Ÿ Malpractice in Veterans Administration Hospitals

Legal General Negligence concerning governmental agents, International Law Journal, Literature: Case Western Reserve University, 1970 (Published):

“A Survey Of Medicolegal Aspects Of Human Organ Transplantation In The United States”

Research project for Pharmacology:

“Unanticipated Responses To Drug Therapy”

Research papers for Medical Jurisprudence:

“Hospital Liability: Medicolegal Problems Of Human Organ Transplantation: Medicolegal Problems Of Human Experimentation”

AWARDS: American Jurisprudence Book Award for Medical Jurisprudence course (1969)

American Jurisprudence Book Award for Law Medicine Seminars (1970)

Activities: Various lectures in Cleveland, Ohio and Toledo, Ohio, pertaining to medicolegal

law topics, regarding medico legal law graduate programs, lectures, or medico legal topics to interns and residents on combined programs of Wayne State University School of Medicine and Detroit General Hospital

Medicolegal tape lectures for Physicians Radio Network (New York), April, 1975:

Ÿ “Good Physician-Patient Communication Can Prevent Lawsuits”

Ÿ “Physicians’ Awareness of Drug Side Effect”

LICENSES:

Ÿ State Bar of Michigan - June 1969 to Present

Ÿ State Bar of California - May 1975 to Present

Ÿ State Bar of Arizona - Licensure pending

Ÿ Federal District Court, Eastern District of Michigan - July 1969

Ÿ Federal District Court, Northern District of Ohio - June, 1970

Ÿ Federal District Court, San Francisco, California - May, 1975

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WORK EXPERIENCE:

Ÿ 1976 to present: Private Practice

Michigan and California (as noted above); Arizona: Evaluations and work-ups for all clients from initial intake, screening of medicolegal cases, analysis of medical issues and preparation of medical questions for mediation, arbitration and at trial, interview of lay and medical experts, including deposition preparation, including detailed analysis of medical records, reports, notes and full hospital charts. Medical evaluations for Rule 11 Hearings, Maricopa County Superior Court. Preparation of complete Arizona trail books regarding all legal and medical injuries, arguments, evidence, research, strategies documents and witness evaluations for trial purposes. Preparation of detailed medicolegal settlement summaries with all appropriate exhibits, expert evaluations and computation of damages. Medical defense evaluation of alleged injuries of Indian Reservation land, mainly casinos, as well as other case evaluations applying Indian law for Yavapai-Apache Nation, Camp Verde, Arizona.

Ÿ 1975-1976: trial attorney in medicolegal law areas with San Francisco law firm of Cartwright, Slobodin, et al.

Ÿ July, 1970 to October, 1975: trial law pertaining to medicolegal areas, especially medical malpractice and products liability as a trail attorney with the law firm of Sommers, Schwartz, et al.

Ÿ Federal Tort Claims Act Work Malpractice and Negligence (defense) experience since graduation from my Master of Law Program - July, 1970

Ÿ United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Ohio, 1969 - 1970

Ÿ Automobile Insurance Underwriting experience

Ÿ Legal Subrogation and Claim experience, 1960 to 1970, part time

Ÿ Legal Department of Cadillac Mutual Insurance Company, Detroit, Michigan

ASSOCIATIONS:

Ÿ State Bar of Michigan

Ÿ State Bar of California

Ÿ Michigan Association for Justice

Ÿ American Association for Justice

Ÿ Maricopa County Bar Association, Associate Member

Ÿ Arizona Trial Lawyers’ Association, Affinity Membership

Ÿ State Bar of Arizona, Alternative Dispute Resolution Section

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ARIZONA ATTORNEY REFERENCES:

Don Bivens, Esq.

Snell & Wilmer

400 East Van Buren Street

Phoenix, Arizona 85004

(602) 382-6000

David R. Frazer, Esq.

Frazer, Ryan, Goldberg, et al.

3101 N. Central Avenue, Suite 1600

Phoenix, Arizona 85012-2615

(602) 277-2010

Stanley J. Marks, Esq.

Begam, Lewis & Marks

111 West Monroe Street, Suite 1400

Phoenix, Arizona 85003-1787

(602) 254-6071

Bernardo Garcia, Esq.

827 North Fifth Avenue

Phoenix, Arizona 85003

(602) 340-1999

Charley Laman, Esq.

Former Attorney General

Yavapai-Apache Nation

Camp Verde, Arizona

(623) 330-2503