EXPERIENCE
Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, 2000-2007, San Francisco, California
Cox Castle & Nicholson, 1998-2000, Los Angeles and San Francisco, California

Prior to being admitted to practice in California, Ms. Zapparoni was a barrister in Australia, where she represented corporate and individual clients in state and federal courts as trial counsel.

EDUCATION
University of California at Berkeley, LL.M., Boalt Hall School of Law, 1998
University of Melbourne, LL.B., 1989
University of Melbourne, B.S., 1989 (Genetics)
 
Ceide Zapparoni specializes in business litigation. She has broad experience litigating a wide range of commercial disputes in federal and state courts with a particular focus on the financial services industry.  Her cases have focused on areas including consumer litigation, breach of contract, property disputes, ERISA, securities, NASD arbitration, intellectual property, defamation of and by corporations, and bankruptcy. She has substantial experience with the law of fiduciary responsibility under ERISA governing consultants and investment advisers. She has experience in alternative dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation.

While at Howard Rice, Ms. Zapparoni was a member of the legal team representing Pacific Gas & Electric Company in its Chapter 11 proceeding. She also worked pro bono on the City and County of San Francisco's marriage equality cases, during which she successfully opposed an intervention application by an anti-same sex marriage advocacy group.  For the San Francisco Chronicle's report of Ms. Zapparoni's argument, please go to: THE BATTLE OVER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

Admissions
California
- US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- US District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Central Districts of California

Memberships
- State Bar of California
- American Bar Association
- Bar Association of San Francisco
- Queen's Bench Bar Association
- Bay Area Lawyers For Individual Freedom

Ms. Zapparoni clerked for the Honorable Justice George Hampel of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia from 1990-1991.