Born:

San Francisco, California, 1953

Admitted to bar:

1981, California and U.S. District Court, Northern District of California; 1984, Eastern District of California; 1993, Southern District of California; 1994, Central District of California

Education:

University of California at Davis (B.A., 1975); University of San Francisco, Graduate Division, History Masters Program (1975-1976); Hastings College of the Law, University of California; McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific (J.D., 1980)

Memberships:

American Bar Association; Bar Association of San Francisco (Member, Barristers' Club Board of Directors, 1988-89; Chair, Summer Fundraiser, 1987); Irish American Bar Association; California Women Lawyers; Defense Research Institute; Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada; Queen's Bench; Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity International (President, Engle Chapter, 1978-1979)

Languages:

English, French

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Gabriel A. Jackson
Founding Partner

Phone: (415) 982-6300 ext. 3315
Email: gaby@jacksonwallace.com

Ms. Jackson is the founder of the Firm. She was first involved in toxic tort cases when she began working on the defense of an asbestos product manufacturer, Eagle-Picher, in 1979 as a law clerk and later in 1982, as an attorney, supervised their defense in Northern California and four other western states. This involved the active management, pretrial preparation and trials of an ongoing caseload of about 4,000 cases. In 1985, she moved to the San Francisco office of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enerson.

At McCutchen, she was a member of the products/tort group, actively managing and defending complex toxic tort cases. In addition to defending GAF in asbestos cases at McCutchen, Ms. Jackson was also involved in the Stringfellow Acid Pits litigation and handled defective residential piping litigation for the Hoescht-Celanese Corporation, first as local counsel and then as part of the National Coordinating Counsel team.

After establishing the Firm in 1988, she assumed the role of local counsel for a major wire-and-cable manufacturer in January of 1991. Later that year the Firm became National Coordinating Counsel overseeing the defense of all of that company's asbestos litigation cases nationwide. Ms. Jackson has significant experience in managing cases, implementing strategy for clients involved in national litigation, conducting expert and fact witness depositions, witness development and discovery management. Over the last 10 years, the Firm has had thousands of cases dismissed by way of summary judgement motions or negotiations.

In the late Fall of 1997, she became National Coordinating Counsel of asbestos litigation for two major building products manufacturers, and while in that position until April of 2001, performed the same strategic management for these companies as she does for the Firm's other clients. Ms. Jackson lectures nationally and has been on the faculty at conferences presented by the Defense Research Institute, Andrews Continuing Education Institute, Mealey's Publications, Queen's Bench and the Bar Association of San Francisco.