Profile - Stephen Acker

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Company

Acker & Whipple
811 Wilshire Blvd Ste 700
Los Angeles, CA 90017

Phone

(213) 347-0240

Member Bio

Stephen Acker was born on September 1, 1951, in Pasadena, California. He attended Pasadena City Schools and received a B.A. degree with high honors from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1972 and a J.D. degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in 1975. He was admitted to the Bar in California in 1975 and in Maryland and the District of Columbia in 1985.

Stephen has performed distinguished service to organizations of the legal profession and the community as a member of the City Council of Pasadena, California, from 1979-1983, the Pasadena Housing Advisory & Appeals Board, 1978-1979 and the Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena Airport Authority, of which he was a Commissioner, from 1981-1983.

He also served as a Diplomatic Secretary and Consular Officer of the U.S. Department of State, assigned to the American Embassy, Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 1986 to 1988. He is a past treasurer of the Pasadena Bar Association and is currently a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel and American Board of Trial Advocates.

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The firm was started in 1979 in Los Angeles by William W. Huss, whose areas of law practice emphasis included property insurance law and defense of liability claims. Since that time, the lawyers of the firm have represented service and manufacturing businesses in many industries, as well as local and regional government entities, in state and federal trial and appellate courts.

In 1989, upon being appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court by Governor George Deukmejian, William Huss left the firm and its name was changed from Huss, Acker & Bailey and then to Acker, Kowalick & Whipple. Shareholders at that time were Stephen Acker, Fred Kowalick and Anthony Whipple, who have since been joined by Jerri Johnson, Leslie Burnett and most recently, Colette Magnetta. The firm has recently changed its name to Acker & Whipple. The main area of law practice continues to be defense of civil liability claims, assigned both by insurers as approved counsel to represent their insureds, and by self insured businesses.

Areas of particular emphasis are product liability, professional liability, and numerous types of personal injury and property damage claims including commercial transportation, construction workplace accidents, premises liability, general negligence, construction defect and asbestos claims. In 2006 Acker & Whipple moved to its current offices at 888 W. 6th St., 9th Floor, in downtown Los Angeles, and in October, 2006, as we grew in size, we expanded to the 5th Floor of the building.

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