Kasey Townsend

Biography

Kasey C. Townsend is Partner-in-Charge of Murchison & Cumming's San Francisco office, where she handles general civil litigation including construction defect and injury, employment law, general liability, habitability and representing HOA Board of Directors for the Sacramento and San Francisco Bay areas. She has extensive experience in all phases of litigation including Mediation, Arbitration and Trial. Ms. Townsend is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

Her career at Murchison & Cumming began in the San Diego branch office, as an Associate Attorney specializing in civil litigation defense including personal injury, employment, property and construction law. In 2003, Ms. Townsend opened the branch office in Northern California and became Partner in Charge of that office continuing an active civil litigation defense practice retained by individual companies, private clients and insurance companies. Her published decisions include Aas vs. Superior Court, 24 Cal. 4th 627.

Ms. Townsend is a member of the State Bar of California, the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys (“ADTA”), Defense Research Institute ("DRI"), Claims & Litigation Management Alliance (“CLM”) and Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada ("ADCNCN"). She has written monthly articles for the California Real Estate Reporter.

Ms. Townsend is admitted to practice before all California State Courts, the United States District Court for the Northern, Eastern, Central and Southern Districts of California, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Ms. Townsend is a graduate of the California State University, Chico (B.A.) and the University of San Diego School of Law (J.D.) where she served in the Student Bar Association as a Class Representative.
 

Education

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Admissions/Licenses

• Bar Admissions: CA