Experience

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  Law Offices of Rubin & Eagan

  • Principal

    • 1975 - Present

    In 1973, Mr. Rubin opened his law office in Beverly Hills and subsequently opened branch offices in San Francisco and Dallas. Mr. Rubin currently maintains his offices in Century City.During the past 40 years, Mr. Rubin’s experience and practice has been concentrated in business, real estate and insurance disputes and transactions (including title insurance coverage litigation and underwriting). He has performed these services for various parties, including insureds, underwriters, owners, and lenders, throughout the United States in most of the commercial centers of the country. He has developed an expertise for managing, directing and structuring the settlement of complex litigation and transactional disputes before litigation. Mr. Rubin’s real estate experience involved many types of disputes, including: adjoining owners; adverse possession; boundaries; brokers; construction loans; due diligence; easements; encroachments; escrows; fiduciary responsibilities; financing; foreclosures; fraud; Hawaiian land rights; homeowners associations; joint ventures; landlord and tenant; lender liability; lis pendens; marketable title; mechanics’ liens and numerous other involuntary liens; mineral rights; mortgages; option contracts; partnerships; priorities and recording; purchase and sale; restrictive covenants; specific performance; statute of frauds; trust deeds; trusts; water rights; and workouts. Mr. Rubin’s experience with title insurance, property insurance and liability insurance disputes involved: bad faith; policy coverage and interpretation; punitive damages; reservation of rights; tender of defense; and, subrogation.During the time that Mr. Rubin has been in private practice, he has been involved in and responsible for more than 300 high liability title insurance claims and real estate disputes, most involving $1,000,000 to $200,000,000 in potential liability.

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  Rubin & Eagan, A Professional Corporation

  • Testifying Expert

    • 2015 - Present

    Testifying expert, in an eight week jury trial, for an insured in a claim on a title insurance policy resulting in a $25,000,000 verdict (policy limits). The verdict was reported as the largest in recent Fresno County history.

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  American College of Real Estate Lawyers

  • Board of Governors, Member

    • 1983 - Present

    In 1983 Mr. Rubin was nominated and elected as a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. He chaired the Title Insurance Committee for three years and currently chairs the International Title Assurance Subcommittee. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (2003-2005).

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  Beverly Hills Bar Association

  • Beverly Hills, CA

  • Member of the Executive Committee

    • Sep 2015 - Sep 2016
    • Beverly Hills, CA

    Appointed to the Executive Committee of the Beverly Hills Bar Association Section on Conflict Resolution. The Committee has created a Mediation Referral Service with an approved list of panel mediators to serve the Beverly Hills and surrounding communities.

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  California Department of Insurance

  • Consumer Complaints and Unfair Practices Task Force Member

    • Jan 1991 - Dec 1991

    In 1991 Mr. Rubin served on the California Insurance Commissioner’s Consumer Complaints and Unfair Practices Task Force.

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  California Land Title Association

  • Amicus Curiae

    • 1978 - 1978

    In 1978 Mr. Rubin, with the approval of the Attorneys General of California and Nevada, appeared as amicus curiae and filed a brief on behalf of the California Land Title Association in the original action filed by the State of California against the State of Nevada, in the Supreme Court of the United States. This action involved the determination of the boundary line between the States of California and Nevada, invoked under Article III, Section 2, Clause 2 of the Constitution of the United States.In 1990 Mr. Rubin represented the California Land Title Association before the Insurance Commissioner for the State of California in connection with the proposed enactment of the unfair claims settlement practices regulations. Mr. Rubin successfully argued and negotiated for the exclusion of the title insurance industry from the applicability of the regulations.

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  Chicago Title and Trust Company, Chicago Title Insurance Company

  • Greater Chicago Area

  • Assistant Vice President

    • 1961 - 1973
    • Greater Chicago Area

    From 1961 until 1973, Mr. Rubin worked for Chicago Title and Trust Company and Chicago Title Insurance Company responsible for land title searching, examining, underwriting and claims in the states of California, Illinois, Nevada and Arizona. His responsibilities also included assignments as Counsel for the Escrow Department, Trust Department and subsidiaries of the companies.