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February 11, 2013

Rick Kraemer Profiled In Attorney Journal Magazine

Executive Presentations may be based in the heart Los Angeles, but its reputation — and that of EP President Rick Kraemer has long been established throughout the greater Southern California region. Just ask the San Diego edition of Attorney Journal magazine, which profiled Rick as a Featured Professional for its February 2013 issue. His dedication to delivering the products and presentations that attorneys need to strengthen their cases, landed him accounts and the respect of San Diego firms and attorneys such as Wingert Grebing Brubaker & Juskie, LLP; Thorsnes Bartolotta McGuire; Estey & Bomberger; LLP, Kenneth Sigelman; Casey Gerry LLP; and Chapin Fitzgerald, LLP. Prominent Los Angeles clients include Panish Shea & Boyle LLP; Girardi & Keese; Shernoff Bidart Echeverria Bentley LLP; and Glaser Weil LLP. Orange County firms that regularly use Executive Presentations’ services include Robinson Calcagnie Robinson Shapiro Davis, Inc.; Aitken, Aitken & Cohn; and Callahan & Blaine. Headlined “A Quest To Win,” the article by writer Jennifer Hadley looks at Rick’s background and the history of EP from its humble beginnings in 1986, beginning with its birth from Rick’s previous endeavor with a company focused on the development of a graphics presentation system, to its success today. […]
April 9, 2013

Zerby v. City of Long Beach: Family Of Man Killed By Police Awarded $6.5 Million

An emotional Mark Zerby, the father of 35-year-old Douglas Zerby who was shot and killed by Long Beach Police officers on December 12, 2010, told reporters that he felt vindicated with the unanimous decision the Federal District Court jury reached April 5. In it, the Zerby family was awarded $6.5 million and the two Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) officers involved in the shooting were found negligent and liable in the death of his son. Mark Zerby sued the City of Long Beach and LBPD officers Victor Ortiz and Jeffrey Shurtleff on civil rights violations claiming that the officers used excessive force when they shot and killed his son. On the day Douglas Zerby died, he had reportedly been waiting for a friend in the 5300 block of East Ocean Boulevard at about 4:30 p.m. when police received a 911 call of a man with a gun. Arriving on scene, the responding officers Ortiz and Shurtleff spent a reported eight minutes observing Zerby covertly believing he was under the influence of alcohol and holding a gun. What Zerby was holding was a disconnected water hose nozzle, when he was shot eight times by the two officers bearing a handgun and […]