Attorneys

David D. Ring d_ring@bmrlegal.com tel. (415) 982-6393 fax  (415) 982-2429

David D. Ring is the founder and widely respected emeritus member of the firm.  He engaged in general civil practice for over 45 years.  His distinguished and varied career brought him recognition as one of California's most effective attorneys in the field of commercial law, including transactional and corporate matters, and a broad range of civil litigation. 

In a landmark defamation case on behalf of corporate and individual clients, he obtained a verdict for compensatory and punitive damages which he then defended on appeal to the United States Supreme Court, Field Research Corporation v. Patrick (1973) 30 Cal.App.3d 603, after first obtaining reversal by the California Supreme Court of a summary judgment for the defendant. FRC v. Patrick (1969) 71 Cal.2d 110.

He defended major corporate clients in actions ranging from employment discrimination to product liability claims, as well as in NLRB proceedings.  In a product liability action against Shell Oil Company, he litigated to a defense verdict a claim that its product was inherently defective, leading to a series of summary judgments in other cases.  

He pursued to successful judgment a proceeding to prevent a local assessor from taxing a portion of the campus of a small liberal arts college.  And when a product supplier sought to compel an elderly couple to pay extravagant prices for furnaces they had been induced to install upon false representations, he obtained a successful settlement when the defendant capitulated while the jury was out. 

In the field of real estate, he negotiated major land acquisitions and the resolution of numerous condemnation actions.  Where reasonable compensation was not offered, he has defended owners and lessees in many condemnation trials.  When a rancher was threatened with loss of his ranch in a dispute with the lending institution, he successfully stopped the foreclosure proceedings.  He also maintained a continuous probate practice involving routine as well as disputed proceedings. 

Mr. Ring graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in engineering mathematics and from the University of Michigan Law School in 1949 , where he received his JD with distinction and was awarded the Order of the Coif.  He was an associate editor of the Michigan Law Review and is admitted to practice in all of the California courts and the US Supreme Court.  He served in the Navy in World War II and has been actively involved in the field of education.  His outside interests include music, skiing and scuba diving.  He is an instrument rated multi-engine pilot, who with his wife, circumnavigated the earth in his twin engine airplane.