Stephen Acker

• Product Liability
• Securities Broker Dealer Law
• Construction Workplace Accident
• Breach of Contract Claims

Stephen Acker was born on September 1, 1951, in Pasadena, California. He attended Pasadena City Schools and received a B.A. degree with high honors from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1972 and a J.D. degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in 1975. He was admitted to the Bar in California in 1975 and in Maryland and the District of Columbia in 1985. Stephen has performed distinguished service to organizations of the legal profession and the community as a member of the City Council of Pasadena, California, from 1979-1983, the Pasadena Housing Advisory & Appeals Board, 1978-1979, the Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena Airport Authority, of which he was a Commissioner from 1981-1983 and the Pasadena Transportation Advisory Commission, of which he is currently a member.  From 1985 to 1988 Stephen was a member of the Foreign Service of the United States, and was assigned from 1986 to 1988 as a Vice Consul and Second Secretary of the United States Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Stephen has held a variety of leadership positions in DRI, a national defense bar organization.  He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) in which membership is by invitation only to experienced trial attorneys “of high personal character and honorable reputation.”  And he has received an AV^® Preeminent^™ 5.0 out of 5 peer review rating through Martindale-Hubbell.  Stephen has now tried over 50 cases to verdict and continues a very active law practice.  

• Society of Automotive Engineers 1996. Improving Your Response to Product Liability Claims.
• Defense Research Institute Law Practice Management Review 2009. Managing the Defense Litigation File.
• Defense Research Institute Law Practice Management Review 2009. Is Law Firm Management In Your Future.
• Defense Research Institute In-House Defense Quarterly, Fall 2012. Responding to a Product Liability Claim.
• Defense Research Institute It’s Your Business, May 2013. Some Benefits of Having a Conversation Between Supervisors and Associates About the “Business” of Law Practice.
• Published Opinion: Bridgestone Corp. v Superior Court of Los Angeles County. 99 Cal.App. 4th 767 (2002).

Stephen currently serves as a trustee of the Pasadena History Museum, the mission of which is to promote an appreciation of history, culture, arts, and sciences relevant to Pasadena and adjoining communities. The Museum maintains extensive collections of newspapers, photographs, city directories, books, maps, architectural records and other documents, now exceeding one million items stored in the History Center building on Museum grounds next to the historic Fenyes Mansion, also a Museum facility, in Pasadena.