Mark E. Hellenkamp

    Partner
    San Diego
    Direct: 619.819.2494
    Main: 619.557.0404

    Practice Focus:

    • Main Biography
    • Appellate Advocacy
    • Commercial Law, Intellectual Property & Unfair Competition
    • Insurance Law
    • Professional Liability

    Mr. Hellenkamp is a partner in the firm's San Diego office and a member of the firm's Insurance Law, Commercial Law, Professional Liability and Appellate practice groups. The primary focus of his practice is insurance coverage and bad faith litigation and the representation of corporations and professionals in business litigation. Mr. Hellenkamp's experience includes successful civil jury trials, arbitrations and mediations, and argument at both the trial and appellate levels. His legal writing and analysis is an integral part of his practice and service to clients.

    Insurance: Mr. Hellenkamp has represented property and liability insurers in state and federal courts in coverage and bad faith matters arising from underlying construction, professional liability, business tort, pollution and asbestos, property damage and automobile and personal injury claims. He has authored coverage opinions and advised insurers on a wide variety of insurance, claims handling and underwriting issues.

    Business Litigation: Mr. Hellenkamp has prosecuted and defended large scale disputes involving copyright, including architectural copyright, contract, trademark, unfair competition, bootlegging and other issues.

    Professional Liability: Mr. Hellenkamp has represented insurers in agent misrepresentation cases, and architects, engineers and contractors in a variety of litigated matters at both the trial and appellate levels.

    Appellate: Mr. Hellenkamp has authored successful appellate briefs and writs on several important issues including insurance coverage and insurance agent misrepresentation, architectural and legal malpractice, the economic loss rule, the peculiar risk doctrine and limitation of liability clauses. He has successfully argued many cases in the California Courts of Appeal.

    Education

    • J.D., University of San Diego School of Law, 1989
    • B.A., University of Puget Sound, 1985

    Court Admissions

    • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    • United States District Court for the Central, Northern and Southern Districts of California

    Bar Admissions

    • California, 1989

    Speeches and Publications

    • Instructor, Insurance Educational Association Workshop, "Avoiding Bad Faith in the Handling of Difficult Claims"
    • Editor: Morris Polich & Purdy LLP’s "California and Nevada Insurance Coverage Update" client newsletter
    • Educational presentations to insurance, architectural clients and others addressing insurance coverage issues, pre-trial strategy, legal writing, and civil litigation strategy
    • Speaker on Trademark Issues, "Marketing and Protection of Design Professional Services on the Internet," November 2008
    • "Unauthorized Use of Architectural Plans Can Be Costly," Construction Executive Magazine, September 2008 Issue
    • Quoted in The Architect’s Newspaper, June 25, 2008 on Architectural Copyright Issues
    • Speaker, Copyright Issues, "Business Promotion on the Internet" Seminar
    • Speaker, "Copyright Law in the Practice of Architecture" for Mobius LA