Legal Services & Lawyers

During law school, Scott Kalkin clerked for the California Department of Justice for three years. He worked on a wide variety of cases pending before the California Supreme Court and various courts of appeal. After meeting Constantin Roboostoff in a martial arts class in 1983, Mr. Kalkin also clerked at the firm of Roboostoff & Allen, where Mr. Roboostoff was a senior partner. After graduating from law school, Mr. Kalkin was hired by the firm as an associate. Mr. Roboostoff and Mr. Kalkin established their law firm, Roboostoff & Kalkin, in 1988.

In 1989 Mr. Kalkin was elected to the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association and became its president in 2003. He remains active in the organization. Mr. Kalkin has also served as a judge pro tem for the San Francisco and San Mateo County Superior Courts since 1990.

In 2008 Mr. Kalkin was inducted as one of Northern California's Super Lawyers, www.superlawyers.com. He is also AV rated by Martindale Hubbell.
Mr. Kalkin practices in the following areas of law: Disability Claims, ERISA Litigation, Personal Injury, Civil Appeals, Insurance Bad Faith and Professional Negligence. Mr. Kalkin has handled over 100 appeals in the appellate courts over the course of his career.

Since 1995, Joe has specialized in ERISA counseling and litigation. He has represented ERISA-regulated benefit plans and their trustees, dozens of participants and beneficiaries, and ERISA plan sponsors and beneficiaries, as well as serving as a named plan fiduciary. From 2003 to 2005 he represented the United States Secretary of Labor in ERISA litigation and investigations.

Joe also practices in the areas of employment, executive compensation, unfair competition, and consumer litigation under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

Mr. Vlasak focuses his practice on civil litigation for plaintiffs, including habitability and wrongful eviction suits for tenants, as well as consumer, employment and personal injury actions. Mr. Vlasak earned his Juris Doctor degree from Temple University Law School in Philadelphia, where he was Staff Editor of Temple International and Comparative Law Journal.

Prior to his career as an attorney, Mr. Vlasak was an Adjunct Professor and taught courses including philosophy, ethics, and logic.