SLOTE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Counsel to Internet
- Member of the State Bar of California
ADAM G. SLOTE practices in the areas of administrative law (professional licensing), litigation and business law. He has been in practice since 1988. Adam opened his own practice in 1992 with the goal of utilizing technology to provide high-quality legal services efficiently and cost-effectively.
Adam serves as counsel to Internet and technology start-ups, small manufacturers, consultants, traditional retailers, and licensed businesses and professionals in regulated industries. He handles general corporate law matters, contracts, leases and litigation. Adam has significant jury trial experience.
Adam is a member of the State Bar of California and the California Academy of Attorneys for Healthcare Professionals (CAAHCP).
Cal Jones Properties v. Evans Pacific Corporation, 216 Cal.App.3d 324 (1989)
ROBERT D. "BO" LINKS has conducted a general civil practice in San Francisco since 1974.
His special areas of emphasis include labor and employment disputes, education law, construction matters, and general business counseling and private dispute resolution services. He has extensive experience as a trial and appellate advocate and, in addition, as a respected arbitrator-mediator. He has prosecuted jury cases to verdict and well over 100 arbitration claims to hearing and final adjudication.
Bo regularly volunteers as a pre-arbitration settlement panelist for the San Francisco Superior Court. He also serves as a Mediator and Early Neutral Evaluator for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
In the area of Education Law, the firm will not be undertaking new representation for students and parents from March - December of 2018.
Bo is a native San Franciscan, having graduated from George Washington High School (1967), UC Berkeley (1971) and the UCLA School of Law (1974). While at Berkeley, he earned Phi Beta Kappa honors. During law school at UCLA he participated in the Moot Court Honors Program and was selected for the Roscoe Pound Advocacy Team. He is a member of the State Bar of California, the Bar Association of San Francisco, the American Arbitration Association, and is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in California, as well as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.
Bo is a widely acclaimed golf author and golf historian. His two books, "Follow the Wind" and "Riverbank Tweed & Roadmap Jenkins: Tales from the Caddie Yard" have engaged golfers around the world, and his essay, Return to Glory, chronicles the effort to save San Francisco's Harding Park Golf Course and restore it as a championship venue. He also wrote "More Than A Game," also an extended essay, about the 2009 Presidents Cup matches at Harding Park and also about the establishment of a First Tee facility at a San Francisco Middle School. Mr. Links is also a two-time winner of the golf architecture contest sponsored by the Alister MacKenzie Society (it is an international competition intended to showcase promising architectural talent in the tradition of the original Lido Design Prize captured by Dr. Alister MacKenzie in 1914 - a feat which launched one of the legendary careers in the history of golf course architecture.) Mr. Links is the only two-time winner of the competition ("2007", "2008"). Bo is co-founder of the San Francisco Public Golf Alliance (www.sfpublicgolf.com) and is one of the leaders in the movement to save Sharp Park, the Alister MacKenzie course in Pacifica, just south of San Francisco. Knows as "the Poor Man's Pebble Beach," the course has been threatened by environmental issues, but remains one of MacKenzie's greatest creations: a former salt marsh that was transformed into a memorable (and beautiful) golf course that has been a hub of local activity for 80 years.
Steve has experience handling legal matters with the following agencies:
An experienced California health care, licensing and government relations attorney, Steve has expertise in physician, physician assistant, nursing, psychologist, pharmacy and veterinary board licensing and disciplinary matters. He has served as a medical malpractice defense attorney for the University of California, approved by the U.C. Office of the President (UCOP), Legal Affairs. He is also a faculty member for Professional Boundaries, Inc. (PBI), a professional health education program accredited by the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine and the California Department of Consumer Affairs to provide Professional Boundaries, Ethics, Prescribing, and Medical Record Keeping courses for Physicians, Nurses, Veterinarians, Pharmacists, Physician Assistants and other health care professionals. Steve is a member of the California Academy of Attorneys for Health Care Professionals (CAAHP). The Academy membership includes California's top attorneys with significant experience representing licensed health care professionals in administrative law, licensing and disciplinary matters. In 2019, Steve reduced his schedule as a partner in the firm and now serves as Of Counsel.
Steve's extensive legal background includes 15 years as a Deputy Attorney General for the State of California. During that time he worked for 10 years in the Health Quality Enforcement (HQE) Section where he was appointed Attorney General's Liaison to the California Medical Board and the Osteopathic Medical Board. Steve also served as a legislative advocate for the Attorney General, receiving the Attorney General's Award for Excellence for his efforts.
Prior to law school Steve was a Special Agent of the F.B.I. (New York) in counter-terrorism, foreign counterintelligence, and organized crime. He is an F.B.I.-D.E.A.-certified Narcotic and Drug Specialist. Steve is also certified as an Clinical Instructor for the internationally renowned National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA).
An avid outdoorsman, Steve is a certified open-water scuba diver and supporter of the Ocean Defenders' Alliance (ODA), a nonprofit organization of divers committed to ridding the oceans of man-made hazards to fish and wildlife. He is also a long-board surfer with a preference for warm water, having grown up frequenting the frigid waves of San Francisco and Santa Cruz. He and his wife, Harumi, are members of Zen Heart Sangha in Woodside, California. They are frequent visitors to Japan where Steve has engaged in Zen study.