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Joseph J. Catalano serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Litigation Counsel for Union Bank in San Francisco. Previously he was the General Counsel of Bay View Capital Corporation [NYSE:BVC]. He is the Immediate Past President of the San Francisco Bank Attorneys Association. He has served as the Chair of the Litigation Committee of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), and is a past president of that association's San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. He currently serves on the Chapter's Board of Directors and is Chair of its Litigation Committee. He is an advisory member of the Financial Institutions Committee of the State Bar of California, and is one of the Founding Members of the Financial Institutions Committee of ACC. He was chosen as the Member of the Year at the 2006 Annual Meeting of ACC.
He is a frequent speaker and has most recently spoken on the topic, Records? We Don't Need No Stinking Records…Practice Tips and Pointers Under the New FRCP at the 2007 Annual Conference of the California Bankers Association, and Risk Management Issues Arising from the Retention and Non-Preservation of Electronic Records, at its 2006 Annual Conference. He has presented on the topic of Records Management to the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Hispanic National Bar Association . His article, Tips and Insights on: Litigation Management for Small Law appeared in the March 2006 ACC Docket. He received his Bachelor's Degree from Manhattan College in New York, and his JD Degree from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in California.
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