Robert Pave

Robert M. Pave was born on August 3, 1929 in Warsaw, Poland. After spending his first five years in the Nazi concentration camps, he emigrated to the United States. Mr. Pave served in the Marine Corps from 1956 to 1958. Mr. Pave attended the University of New Mexico, graduating in 1965 with a Bachelors degree in Architecture and Fine Arts. He graduated cum laude from Southwestern University in Los Angeles, with his Juris Doctor degree in 1970. Mr. Pave is married to Inger, and they have two adult sons, both in the computer field. Mr. Pave is a fanatical cycling and motorcycle enthusiast, and enjoys litigating two-wheel cases. He is a former bicycle and motorcycle amateur racer, having competed in numerous ranked races with his sons. Mr. Pave has specialized in the field of insurance defense and civil trials for the past 21 of his 33 years practicing. Mr. Pave’s trials have been in the areas of personal injury and premises liability, with an emphasis on technical, medical and scientific expert testimony. Mr. Pave has expanded his practice into the area of mold, and construction defect, utilizing his architectural knowledge. He has successfully tried more than 31 cases for State Farm in the Bay Area, all of which were victories and 29 of which resulted in flat-out defense verdicts. Pave & Bogaards Pave & Bogaards is a litigation law firm practice formed over eleven years ago by two trial attorneys, Robert M. Pave and Debra F. Bogaards. Mr. Pave was the founding partner of Pave, McCord, Jacobs & Berkus, and represented State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company and State Farm Fire and Casualty Company for more than 20 years. Ms. Bogaards was a trial attorney with Allswang, Smith & Walsh, who also worked for State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company and State Farm Fire and Casualty Company. She was just named a Northern California Super Lawyer of 2006. Pave & Bogaards has been designated by the Human Rights Commission of San Francisco as a woman-owned/minority firm in 2004. Ms. Bogaards is the majority shareholder as well as managing partner. The firm of five attorneys practices general civil litigation in all state and federal courts, in the areas of insurance defense, business litigation, construction defect, employment law, fraud (S.I.U.), uninsured and underinsured motorists, real estate, landlord-tenant law, psychological injury, sexual harassment, personal injury, Americans with Disability Act, and general commercial liability. Pave & Bogaards carries the highest rating given by Martindale-Hubbell. Pave & Bogaards is committed to legal excellence, while keeping an eye on cost containment for clients. Attorneys at the firm usually return phone calls from clients within two hours. In addition, the attorneys give their cell phone numbers to claims representatives, who may call them after hours and on weekends. Written reporting follows any guidelines provided by the client. Because Pave & Bogaards prides itself on carefully following such guidelines, a client has recently assigned more of its trial work to the firm. Mercury Insurance became a client five years ago after reading a verdict in Jury Verdicts involving a recent trial by Ms. Bogaards in Sonoma county. Bimbo Bakeries International Inc. and Horace Mann became clients in the past year. The attorneys at Pave & Bogaards perform detailed and thorough investigation of cases. They are accustomed to multi-party litigation, in terms of scheduling depositions, court appearances, motions and the like. Lastly, the firm reasonably evaluates cases early, and attempts to resolve each case short of trial, whenever possible, in the client's best interests. The firm has earned an excellent reputation in the legal community, among judges, special masters, mediators, and others involved in case resolution. Pave and Bogaards enjoys a good relationship with the other members of the bar, because of their history of trial success and reputation for reasonable evaluation. This reputation assists in the resolution of cases in an expeditious manner. http://www.pave-bogaards.com