Bastianelli, Seth

Marte J. Bassi is a partner and concentrates his practice in large product liability toxic tort cases (e.g. asbestos / environmental contamination) and real estate / business litigation. He was with Pillsbury Madison & Sutro for eleven years before joining Bassi Edlin Huie & Blum LLP twelve years ago. Marte has tried various complex commercial cases to verdict including a number of high profile first amendment cases (he obtained a $6 million dollar verdict for a client in a trial). He has an extensive background in real estate litigation-both commercial and residential. Marte has been recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer in Personal Injury Defense and Business Litigation consecutively since 2004.

Marte is a third generation San Franciscan who attended Saint Ignatius College Preparatory and then San Francisco State University, where he earned a bachelors degree in Mathematics. He received his J.D. with highest honors from Golden Gate University in 1987. He was a writer and editor on the law review and earned the American Jurisprudence awards for Evidence, Real Property, and Ethics. He was a writer and regional editor for Harris Martin's Publication Columns. He clerked in the San Francisco Superior Court Law and Motion Department for the honorable Lucy Kelly McCabe and the honorable Raymond Williamson.