MUNDELL, ODLUM and HAWS
Mundell, Odlum & Haws is a law firm emphasizing all aspects of business litigation and employment law. From its office in San Bernardino, the Firm serves clients throughout Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange counties. The Firm was founded in January, 1988 by Tom Mundell, who left the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher to start a practice in the San Bernardino-Riverside metropolitan area. The practice grew and Jim Odlum, a member of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Labor Department, joined the Firm in June, 1990. Kasey Haws, a litigator from the Orange County office of Latham & Watkins, joined the Firm in March, 1991 as the third partner
Thomas C. Mundell received his B.S. from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada and served for seven years in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police before immigrating to the United States in 1978. Tom received his J.D., summa cum laude, in May 1981 from the University of San Diego, graduating first in a class of 272 students, with what was then the highest grade point average in the thirty year history of the law school. Tom also served as Executive Editor of the San Diego Law Review. Following graduation, Tom clerked for Presiding Justice Gerald Brown of the California Court of Appeal and then spent a year doing post-graduate work at Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard International Law Journal. Tom returned to Canada for one year to serve as law clerk to the Right Honorable Brian Dickson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. On returning to the United States, Tom joined the litigation department of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he spent three and one-half years before leaving to start his own firm in January 1988. Since relocating to the Inland Empire, Tom has successfully tried several major commercial cases, earning both plaintiff's and defendant's verdicts in a variety of business disputes.
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