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Hallen D. Rosner
Douglas D. Law
Alan M. Mansfield

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Hallen D. Rosner

Hallen D. Rosner is a founding partner of the firm and has litigated consumer protection matters for over 18 years. He is responsible for a number of outstanding recoveries and has obtained multiple jury verdicts which exceeded $1 million each. Mr. Rosner recently litigated and resolved Shames v. Pacific Bell, San Diego Superior Court Case No. 751324, challenging the failure of Pac Bell to offer a 4-hour time window to consumers as required by law. The settlement resulted in a change of practices and was valued at over $20 million. In April 2004 in McClanahan v. Fleetwood & Freightliner, he recovered an award value of $305,000, including an RV repurchase and $100,000 penalty, against a chassis and motorhome manufacturer for temperature gauge and coolant problems that repeatedly activated a buzzer warning when the clients drove the RV.

Mr. Rosner has served as a state Lemon Law conference moderator, given numerous presentations regarding consumer rights and warranty law, appeared as an expert before a state Senate subcommittee, and provided opinions on consumer legislation to legislators.

Mr. Rosner received dual undergraduate degrees from the University of California, Berkeley (B.A., Rhetoric and Economics, 1980). He received his law degree from the University of San Diego School of Law (J.D., 1983), where he was a member of the Law Review and a representative of the Regional Moot Court. While attending law school, Mr. Rosner handled his first consumer fraud and Lemon Law case as an intern for Professor Robert Fellmeth at the Center for Public Interest Law. Professor Fellmeth is one of the most noted consumer advocates in the country and is one of the two original "Nader's Raiders. After graduation, Mr. Rosner and Professor Fellmeth joined to form a consumer-protection and Lemon Law firm. Professor Fellmeth eventually returned to teaching full-time, while Mr. Rosner continues his precedent-setting consumer protection work in the firm of Rosner, Law & Mansfield.

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Douglas D. Law

Douglas D. Law joined Hal Rosner in 1988 as a founding and managing partner of the firm. For over 14 years, he has successfully litigated consumer protection cases, particularly vehicle cases. Mr. Law was the trial and appellate attorney in the precedent setting case, Foreman v. National R.V., Inc. (1995) 34 Cal.App.4th 1072.

Mr. Law received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A., with Honors, 1978) and his law degree from the University of San Diego School of Law (J.D., 1983). While attending law school, he met Hal Rosner and interned for Professor Robert Fellmeth at the Center for Public Interest Law. Before joining Mr. Rosner in practice, Mr. Law was an associate with Lionel, Sawyer & Collins, the largest law firm in Nevada.

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Alan M. Mansfield

Alan M. Mansfield has specialized in the area of consumer class action and public interest litigation since 1991. He has been involved in numerous significant matters, including the prominent "Joe Camel" teen smoking case, Mangini v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (1994) 7 Cal.4th 1057, and the DMV motor vehicle Smog Impact Fee refund case, Jordan v. Department of Motor Vehicles (1999) 75 Cal.App.4th 449, and UCAN v. Prodigy Communications, San Diego Superior Court Case NO. GIC 779435, involving the unauthorized billing of consumers for Internet dial-up service that resulted in full refunds. He has also made significant practice changes and financial contributions to the California Consumer Protection Foundation.

Before joining the firm in 2001, Mr. Mansfield headed the Consumer Law Group in the San Diego office of Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach, LLP, the largest class action firm in the United States, for several years. While at Milberg Weiss, Mr. Mansfield had a leading role in numerous important class actions which yielded over $1 billion in gross recoveries and settlement values.

Mr. Mansfield is a regular speaker and panelist in continuing legal education programs relating to California's Unfair Business Practices statutes and consumer protection issues, and has spoken to the California Center for Judicial Education and Research. He has written extensively on a number of subjects, including:

Mr. Mansfield has previously served on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Consumer Advocates, and is a member the Editorial Board for the San Diego Chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, the American Bar Association, the Anti-trust Section of the California Bar Association, the San Diego County Bar Association and the Consumer Attorneys of California and San Diego.

Mr. Mansfield is admitted to the State Bar of California, the United States District Courts for all Districts of California and to the Third, Fifth, Ninth and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals. Mr. Mansfield received his undergraduate degree from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (B.S., cum laude, Business Administration-Finance, 1983) and his law degree from the University of Denver (J.D., 1986).

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