Charles H. Horn Principal 44 Montgomery Street, 18th Floor San Francisco, California 94104 Voice: (415) 913-4921 Fax: (415) 391-8766 Email: chh@wrightrobinson.com

Chuck Horn joined Wright, Robinson as a principal in 1991. Prior to joining the firm, he was a senior litigation partner at Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon and a partner at Estabrook, Finn & McKee, now Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur. Chuck served as law clerk for United States District Judge Carl B. Rubin in the Southern District of Ohio from 1974 to 1976. Chuck has more than 25 years of complex litigation experience in state and federal court, including bench and jury trials in California, Hawaii and other states. He has prepared and tried cases in the areas of products liability, professional malpractice, commercial contract disputes, construction defect litigation, premises liability, mass torts, environmental impact, land condemnation, personal injury, vehicle accidents (cars, trucks and motorcycles), insurance bad faith, insurance coverage, emotional distress, psychiatric injury, fire damage, wrongful termination, and securities fraud. He has also handled a wide variety of other types of litigation, including intellectual property, pollution claims, and director and officer real estate insurance claims for AIG. For the years 2004-2007, Chuck was named a Super Lawyer by San Francisco Magazine. This placed him in the top five percent of Northern California attorneys.  PRACTICE AREAS • Complex Litigation • Civil Litigation • Business and Commercial • Insurance • Personal Injury • Professional Malpractice NOTABLE ENGAGEMENTS • Successfully represented an excess carrier suing a primary carrier for unreasonably failing to settle a $1 million claim within limits, recovering the entire amount paid by the excess carrier on the jury verdict plus interest and attorney fees ($435,561) • Successfully represented San Francisco State University in prosecuting a $40 million construction defect and toxic mold jury trial against the design-build contractor and major subcontractors involving fraud claims and a seismically inadequate foundation in a 17-story university dormitory • Successfully defended a day spa against a claim for a broken back suffered by plaintiff while receiving a massage • Successfully defended property owner against claim that a 16-year-old girl fell through a dry rotted balcony onto a concrete sidewalk, severely injuring her back; Plaintiff claimed $531,000 medical expenses, lost wages, and suffering; Defense verdict on independent contractor and negligence issues • Successfully defended a plumbing company in a truck-child pedestrian accident • Successfully defended an insurance company and one of its agents in a million dollar coverage, bad faith and agent malpractice case involving complex factual and legal claims; Defense verdict after six week bench trial • Successfully defended the largest industrialist in Taiwan in a $30 million dollar Silicon Valley business takeover and fraud trial involving complex business transactions and complex issues of computer printer design and manufacture; Defense verdict after nine week jury trial • Successfully defended one of San Francisco's largest and most prestigious law firms in a legal malpractice trial brought by the family of Edgar F. Kaiser involving a claim of a multi-million dollar loss from his estate; Defense verdict after four month jury trial • Successfully defended Westinghouse in a million dollar psychiatric injury trial in an automobile-motorcycle collision case • Obtained summary judgment, affirmed on appeal, against a mother's claim for negligent infliction of emotional distress in a products liability case involving a portable bed rail and the strangulation death of a 16-month old child REPORTED CASES • Assurance Co. of America v. Haven, 32 Cal.App.4th 78 (1995). Established insurer's cause of action against independent Cumis counsel for failure to confer and consult with insurer under Cal. Civil Code §2860. • Citizens Against I-675 v. Drew Lewis, 542 F.Supp. 496 (S.D. Ohio 1982). Successfully defended government entities in environmental impact report trial involving challenge to construction of a major interstate highway. PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS • Presentation at the California Judges Association Workshop on ADR, Do's & Don'ts for Retired Judges (1998). • 'Sudden, Accidental' Exclusion - Who Has the Real Burden, San Francisco Daily Journal, 1994. • Presentation to the Real Estate Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco, Insurance Issues For Real Estate Clients (1992). • Presentation at HAZMACON '92 (a hazardous materials convention), Insurance Coverage For Environmental Incidents (1992). • Presentation to the Torts and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association, Impact of the Consumer Product Safety Commission On Product Liability Litigation (Winter 1985). PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS • State Bar of California • Bar Association of San Francisco • Defense Research Institute • Association of Business Trial Lawyers • Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California • National Institute of Trial Advocacy Faculty, 1988 EDUCATION • J.D., University of Southern California Law School, 1974 • B.A., Northwestern University, 1971 LICENSURE AND ADMISSIONS • State Bar of California, 1975 • All United States District Courts in California • All United States District Courts in Ohio • United States District Court for Hawaii • United States Courts of Appeals for the Sixth, Eighth and Ninth Circuits